Introduction to Genetic Analysis. 9/e

　　A New Author Joins an Accomplished Author Team. New co-author, Sean B. Carroll is an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where he also teaches courses in genetics and evolutionary biology. Carroll is an acknowledged leader in the field of evolutionary developmental biology. His work, Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo was an L.A. Times Book Award finalist.New Emphasis on Answering Biological Questions Using Genetic Analysis New examples show how identifying genes and their interactions is a powerful took for understanding biological properties. In both the early transmission chapters and the later molecular chapters, the text demonstrates how genetic analysis provides a systematic approach to the study of all of biology. In the transmission chapters (2-6)--Chapters 2-6 have been revised to emphasize how genetic analysis is a remarkable tool for answering biological questions. The chapters show, using new examples, how a gene is traditionally identified, how it is mapped, and how its interactions with other genes are explored. From this information, scientists are able to construct the biological pathways (metabolic, developmental, repair, signal transduction, etc.) that are the basis of much of biology. In the core molecular chapters (7-15)--Modern experiments. Building on the text's traditional focus on classical experiments, these chapters now present the evidence and reasoning that led to some of the recent landmark advances, including the discovery of RNAi, the development of a new model of meiotic recombination, advances in our understanding of eukaryotic gene regulation, and others.--New emphasis on how genetics is practiced today. A new feature called "What Geneticists Are Doing Today" suggests how genetic techniques are being used today to answer specific biological questions, such as "what is the link between telomere shortening and aging?" or "how can we find missing components in a specific biological pathway?