文档介绍：THE GENOMICS AGE
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THE GENOMICS AGE
How DNA Technology Is Transforming
the Way We Live and Who We Are
GINA SMITH
AMERICAN MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
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Smith, Gina.
The genomics age : how DNA technology is transforming the way we live and who we are
/ Gina Smith.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-8144-0843-5
1. ics—Popular works. 2. Genomics—Popular works. 3. ics—Social aspects.
4. Genomics—Social aspects. I. Title.
2005
2004012595
© 2005 Gina Smith.
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CONTENTS
Before We Begin . . . 1
An introduction
1 It’s Who You Are 9
You need to understand some basic terms and ideas to make sense of
the DNA sciences. Don’t know a gene from a chromo