Index female sex (prejudice) 157 nucleic acids 47-51 Franklin, Rosalind 56
abortion 151-3
fruit flies, study of 32-9, operons 70
albinism 26
amino acids 48, 64-5
104
mutations 44-6
Pauling, Linus 56
animals, genetic engineering 143
antigens 149
atavism 25
Auerbach , Charlotte 45 genes
PCR 83
Gaitan, Francis 11-13, 156 peas 15-21
Gallon Laboratory 27 pedigrees 24, 26
Garrod , Archibald 31 phages 52, 61
plasmids 81
defined 5
pneumonia 49
bacterial mating 67-71,
79-82
blood cells, red 87-9
brain genes 124
dominant/recessive 19 politics 41 , 17 4-5
linkage map 40-1, 78 polymerases 60, 83
replacing faulty 144-5 prions 1 08-9
transferring 166 genetic proteins 47-8 , 77
cancer 146-7 , 162-3
cells 74-5 , 87-9
diseases, curing 11 recessive genes 19, 25,
engineering 139-65
26, 33
chromosomes 34-44, 100 map 122, 125-7 , 136 restriction enzymes 80
bacterial genes 67-71 genetically modified foods retroviruses 110-11 defined 77 174 RNA51,63 see also DNA; YACs germ-line therapy 150-1 , see also mRNA, tRNA Churchill, Winston 28 154 cloning 81, 17 4-5 Sager, Ruth 73 codes 77 haemoglobin 87-8 screening 133-6 , 158-9 conception 75 heredity 76 sex cells 75, 76 Crick , Francis 54-63 Hitler, Adolf 28 Shaw, G.B. 28 criminal tendency 156 HIV virus 111 sickle-cell anaemia 158 cystic fibrosis 117-21, 153 human Stalin, Joseph 42
screening for 132-5
treating 137-9 , 144
egg 75
starvation , easing 17 4
inheritance 23
stem cells 17 4-5
Huntington's Disease 160 Stopes , Marie 27
Darwin, Charles 8-9
disease, predicting see inheritance, human 23
Sturtevant, A.H. 39-40
screening insurance, health 165, 173 Tay-Sachs Disease 115,
disease, inherited 114-23 , intelligence 155
131
128-53 , 158, 173-4
DNA 51ft artificial 64
codes 53-65, 77
transcription 63
Jenkin , Fleeming 9-10 translation 63
kidney failure 161
transforming principle 50
tRNA 77
in conception 75 creating 79-85
Laboratory for National variation in genetics 29
heredity 76-7
length 73
mapping 78-113
Eugenics 13, 27
linkage map 40-1 , 78
Lysenko, T. D. 42-3
migratory 101-5
dominant genes 19, 33 mapping double helix 56-9
DNA 78-113 genes 122
viruses 52, 80-1 , 1 06-9
genetic engineering 142
see also HIV virus ;
retroviruses
Vries, Hugo de 30
Watson, James 54-63
egg, human 75
electrophoresis 84
enzymes 31, 77
McClintock, Barbara 101 wobble theory 65
Mendel, Gregor 14-23
mice 148
X-rays 45-6
see also polymerases ; Miescher, J.F. 46-7
and DNA 56
restriction enzymes Morgan, Thomas Hunt 32-8 Eugenics Society 27 mRNA63, 77 YACs (yeast artificial eye colour 33-8 mutations 30, 44-6, 60, chromosomes) 82
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