A Complete Book On Nature Of Science And Biology

We enter a new century, one that is exploding with excitement in biology. This first year of the new millennium has seen the completion of the human genome project, with the full sequence of the human genome now available for research and exploration. Embryonic stem cells were cloned for the first time in the year 2000, and offer the potential for curing a wide range of ills, from spinal cord injuries to diabetes. Golden rice, a genetically modified crop to which has been added a battery of genes that overcome deficiencies in vitamin A and Iron, was planted for the first time in Asian fields. Neurobiologists for the first time caught glimpses of the molecular basis of learning. Even taxonomy, that bastion of conservative judgments, seems to be undergoing a sea change, with molecular phylogenies forcing the redrawing of many family trees, from angiosperm plants to insects and other arthropods. ISBN:9788178844749 272 Yr. of Pub.2009 Hard Bound