Subject: DNA (Keywords)

The blueprint for our individuality lies in the 1% of DNA that differs between people. Our intellectual capacity, our introversion or extraversion, our vulnerability to mental illness, even whether we are a morning person - all of these aspects of our personality are profoundly shaped by our inhe...

Why do children look like their parents? Why are some people blonde and others brunette, and where do we get our eye colour from? This text explains genetic theory, what genes are, why DNA plays an important role and what all these insights have to do with a curious monk. An exciting journey thro...

This is an adventure in science & imagination which tracks a young French anthropologist through the Amazonian rain forests, the libraries of Europe & the world's most arcane scientific journals, following strange clues & extraordinary coincidences.

It's inside every living plant and animal, from the tiniest seed to the person standing next to you, but how much do you know about DNA? This book gives children an in-depth look at DNA and its role in all living things - from why we have different-colored eyes to why we age. Discover what DNA is...

The story of the characters who gave the world its first glimpse of the DNA molecule, and the science they practised at Cambridge is now available with a new introduction by Steve Jones.

Discover the answers to your family history mysteries using the most-cutting edge tool available to genealogists.

A beautifully illustrated introduction to the concept of DNA for younger readers. All living things grow - every plant and every animal, including human beings. Some things grow fast and others grow slow; some things grow by tiny degrees, while others grow to be enormous. Yet there's something ab...

Drawing on stories ranging from six-toed cats and stickleback hips to wobbly worms and zombie genes, geneticist Kat Arney explores here how our genes work, creating a companion reader to the book of life itself.

Drawing on stories ranging from six-toed cats and stickleback hips to wobbly worms and zombie genes, geneticist Kat Arney explores here how our genes work, creating a companion reader to the book of life itself.

For decades after the structure of DNA was identified, scientists focused purely on genes, the regions of the genome that contain codes for the production of proteins. Other regions - 98% of the human genome - were dismissed as 'junk'. But in recent years researchers have discovered that variatio...