The Mysterious World of the Human Genome. Frank Ryan

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       Dedication

      To Oswald T. Avery

       Possibly I am a scientist because I was curious when I was young. I can remember being ten, eleven, twelve years old and asking, ‘Now why is that? Why do I see such a peculiar phenomenon? I would like to understand that.’

      LINUS PAULING

      Table of Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Epigraph

       Introduction

       Chapter One: Who Could Have Guessed It?

       Chapter Two: Dna Is Confirmed as the Code

       Chapter Three: The Story in the Picture

       Chapter Four: A Couple of Misfits

       Chapter Five: The Secret of Life

      

       Chapter Six: The Sister Molecule

      

       Chapter Seven: The Logical Next Step

      

       Chapter Eight: First Draft of the Human Genome

      

       Chapter Nine: How Heredity Changes

      

       Chapter Ten: The Advantage of Living Together

      

       Chapter Eleven: The Viruses That Are Part of Us

      

       Chapter Twelve: Genomic Level Evolution

      

       Chapter Thirteen: The Master Controllers

      

       Chapter Fourteen: Our History Preserved in Our Dna

      

       Chapter Fifteen: Our More Distant Ancestors

      

       Chapter Sixteen: The Great Wilderness of Prehistory

      

       Chapter Seventeen: Our Human Relatives

      

       Chapter Eighteen: The Fate of the Neanderthals

      

       Chapter Nineteen: What Makes You Unique

      

       Chapter Twenty: The Fifth Element

      

       Bibliography

      

       Chapter Notes

      

       Index

      

       Acknowledgements