Robinson''s Genetics for Cat Breeders & Veterinarians 4th Edition is an essential purchase for all breeders of pedigreed cats, practising small animal veterinarians and veterinary undergraduates. This fully revised edition re-establishes Genetics for Cat Breeders as the text of choice in the field of feline genetics.

La habilidad para resolver problemas de Genética es una destreza importante que deben adquirir los estudiantes de Genética General, Genética Humana, Genética Molecular y los de otras disciplinas relacionadas con la Genetica que se imparten en los Grados de Biologia, Genetica, Bioquimica, Farmacia, Medicina, Veterinaria, Biotecnologia, Ingenieria Agricola e Ingeneria de Montes.Los problemas recogidos en este libro son un instrumento eficaz y necesario para progresar en el conocimiento de la Genetica y para fijar los conceptos trasmitidos en clases de teoria. No todos los libros de problemas vienen acompañados de una solucion pormenorizada de cada ejercicio. Por esta razon, pensando en los estudiantes, los problemas de este libro se han desarrollado incluyendo todos los razonamientos y pasos sucesivos y necesarios para obtener los resultados finales. Es importante destacar que se han elegido problemas procedentes de examenes de Genetica General y Genetica Humana, y que se ha procurado utilizar un lenguaje lo mas asequible posible para estudiantes, sin renunciar por ello a que aprendan a utilizar la terminologia propia de esta ciencia.

La resolución de problemas de Genética es un instrumento necesario para avanzar en el conocimiento de esta disciplina. Sin embargo, no siempre las series de ejercicios vienen acompañadas de las soluciones o de los pasos dados en su resolución. Por ello, los problemas aquí propuestos se han abordado incluyendo todos los razonamientos sucesivos para obtener los resultados finales. Esta colección de problemas resulta apropiada como complemento de las enseñanzas teóricas de un curso universitario de Genética general de las Facultades de Ciencias Biológicas, Farmacia, Veterinaria, Medicina y Bioquímica, así como de las Escuelas Técnicas de Ingenieros Agrónomos o de Montes.

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El conocimiento de nuestro código genéticoAccesible y fascinante, es tanto una revisión cronológicamente oportuna de esta rama fundamental de la ciencia, como un elemento esencial para saber qué es lo que hace que cada uno de nosotros sea realmente unico. Vivimos una autentica revolucion en el conocimiento humano. Desde que nuestra especie es capaz de elaborar un razonamiento complejo, nos hemos preguntado de donde venimos, por que nos comportamos como lo hacemos, como actuan nuestros cuerpos en la enfermedad y la salud, y por que nos parecemos tanto unos a otros aunque, al mismo tiempo, somos muy distintos y poseemos una maravillosa individualidad. La filosofia y la psicologia, la biologia, la medicina y la antropologia, e incluso la religion, han intentado ofrecer, con cierto exito, respuestas a estas preguntas. Sin embargo, hasta hace muy poco careciamos de una pieza fundamental de este rompecabezas, una pieza de gran significacion en todos los aspectos de la existencia humana: el conocimiento de nuestro codigo genetico.

Arlene KlotzkoSomeday soon (if it hasn't happened in secret already), a human will be cloned, and mankind will embark on a scientific and moral journey whose destination cannot be foretold. In A Clone of Your Own?, Arlene Judith Klotzko describes the new world of possibilities that can be More... glimpsed over the horizon. In a lucid and engaging narrative, she explains that the technology to create clones of living beings already exists, inaugurated in 1996 by Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from a single adult cell. Dolly was the culmination of a long scientific quest to understand the puzzle of our development from one cell into a complex organism -- the outcome of a ' fantastic experiment' envisioned six decades before her birth. Scientists have since cloned mice, cows, goats, pigs, rabbits, horses, rats, a cat and a mule. Using the same laboratory tools and techniques, other researchers are trying to grow embryos, cloned from a single cell of a human being. Their goal is not to make copies of existing people, but to derive stem cells, the infinitely malleable raw material from which they hope to design therapies for currently untreatable diseases and the afflictions of old age. Our fascination with cloning is about much more than science and its extraordinary medical implications. In riveting prose, full of allusions to literature, psychology, art, music, and the cinema, Klotzko shows why the prospect of human cloning triggers our dearest hopes and especially our darkest fears, forcing us to ponder anew what it means to be human. And what it would be like to have 'a clone of your own'.

This book is aimed at students of basic University courses of Genetics and Plant Breeding. However, it may also be useful for any person with an interest in crops breeding. The book has 12 Units that covers the main issues of the plant breeding. In the first part of the book basic concepts of Genetics are presented. Subsequently, there are several units devoted to the importance of diversity for plant breeding, to the identification of the different types of plant populations and to have an understanding of their genetic structure and to a presentation of the most used breeding methods. Finally the book deals with different biotechnological tools used in plant breeding.

A importancia do Proxecto Xenoma Humano non reside tanto no que poida, de feito, revelar sobre a bioloxía como na validación e reforzo que fai do determinismo biolóxico como explicación de todas as diferenzas sociais e individuais.Trad. do ingles e notas: Fernando Vazquez Corredoira e Salvador Mourelo Peres.

A bestselling author neuroscientist and computer engineer unveils a theory of intelligence that will revolutionize our understanding of the brain and the future of AI For all of neuroscience s advances we ve made little progress on its biggest question How do simple cells in the brain create intelligence Jeff Hawkins and his team discovered that the brain uses maplike structures to build a model of the world not just one model but hundreds of thousands of models of everything we know This discovery allows Hawkins to answer important questions about how we perceive the world why we have a sense of self and the origin of high level thought A Thousand Brains heralds a revolution in the understanding of intelligence It is a big think book in every sense of the word One of the Financial Times Best Books of 2021 One of Bill Gates Five Favorite Books of 2021

Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human storyFewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different races are biologically different from one another. For this understandable reason, the idea has been banished from polite academic conversation. Arguing that race is more than just a social construct can get a scholar run out of town, or at least off campus, on a rail. Human evolution, the consensus view insists, ended in prehistory.Inconveniently, as Nicholas Wade argues in A Troublesome Inheritance, the consensus view cannot be right. And in fact, we know that populations have changed in the past few thousand yearsto be lactose tolerant, for example, and to survive at high altitudes. Race is not a bright-line distinction; by definition it means that the more human populations are kept apart, the more they evolve their own distinct traits under the selective pressure known as Darwinian evolution. For many thousands of years, most human populations stayed where they were and grew distinct, not just in outward appearance but in deeper senses as well.