Transmission and Population Genetics
Transmission and Population Genetics

Author: Benjamin A. Pierce

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2006-01-09

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9780716783879

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This new brief version of Benjamin Pierce’s Genetics: A Conceptual Approach, Second Edition, responds to a growing trend of focusing the introductory course on transmission and population genetics and covering molecular genetics separately. The book is comprised of following chapters an case studies from Pierce's complete text: 1. Introduction to Genetics 2. Chromosomes and Cellular Reproduction 3. Basic Principles of Heredity 4. Sex Determination and Sex-Linked Characteristics 5. Extensions and Modifications of Basic Principles 6. Pedigree Analysis and Applications INTEGRATIVE CASE STUDY Phenylketonuria: Part I 7. Linkage, Recombination, and Eukaryotic Gene Mapping 8. Bacterial and Viral Genetic Systems 9. Chromosome Variation INTEGRATIVE CASE STUDY Phenylketonuria: Part II 22. Quantitative Genetics 23. Population Genetics and Molecular Evolution INTEGRATIVE CASE STUDY Phenylketonuria: Part III

Transmission and Population Genetics
Transmission and Population Genetics

Author: Benjamin A. Pierce

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2008-02-15

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9781429211185

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This new brief version of Benjamin Pierce’s Genetics: A Conceptual Approach, Third Edition, responds to a growing trend of focusing the introductory course on transmission and population genetics and covering molecular genetics separately.

Outlines and Highlights for Transmission and Population Genetics by Benjamin Pierce
Outlines and Highlights for Transmission and Population Genetics by Benjamin Pierce

Author: Cram101 Textbook Reviews

Publisher: Academic Internet Pub Incorporated

Published: 2011-05-01

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 9781618123343

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Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again! Virtually all of the testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events from the textbook are included. Cram101 Just the FACTS101 studyguides give all of the outlines, highlights, notes, and quizzes for your textbook with optional online comprehensive practice tests. Only Cram101 is Textbook Specific. Accompanys: 9781429211185 .

Transmission and Population Genetics
Transmission and Population Genetics

Author: Benjamin A. Pierce

Publisher: W. H. Freeman

Published: 2011-02-25

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781429254946

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This version of Ben Pierce’s Genetics: A Conceptual Approach, Fourth Edition contains selected chapters (chapters 1-9, 18, and 24-26) from the larger book to focus specifically on the fundamental concepts of transmission and population genetics. Ben Pierce is known for his ability to make the complex subject of genetics accessible to students, teaching them to see the big picture amid the details of the subject. By aiding students in identifying key concepts in genetics and showing them how concepts connect to one another, Pierce helps students learn genetics with greater ease.

Cultural Transmission and Evolution
Cultural Transmission and Evolution

Author: Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1981-05-21

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 9780691082837

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A number of scholars have found that concepts such as mutation, selection, and random drift, which emerged from the theory of biological evolution, may also explain evolutionary phenomena in other disciplines as well. Drawing on these concepts, Professors Cavalli-Sforza and Feldman classify and systematize the various modes of transmitting "culture" and explore their consequences for cultural evolution. In the process, they develop a mathematical theory of the non-genetic transmission of cultural traits that provides a framework for future investigations in quantitative social and anthropological science. The authors use quantitative models that incorporate the various modes of transmission (for example, parent-child, peer-peer, and teacher-student), and evaluate data from sociology, archaeology, and epidemiology in terms of the models. They show that the various modes of transmission in conjunction with cultural and natural selection produce various rates of cultural evolution and various degrees of diversity within and between groups. The same framework can be used for explaining phenomena as apparently unrelated as linguistics, epidemics, social values and customs, and diffusion of innovations. The authors conclude that cultural transmission is an essential factor in the study of cultural change.

Studyguide for Transmission and Population Genetics by Pierce, Benjamin
Studyguide for Transmission and Population Genetics by Pierce, Benjamin

Author: Cram101 Textbook Reviews

Publisher: Cram101

Published: 2013-05

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9781490219806

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Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again Includes all testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events. Cram101 Just the FACTS101 studyguides gives all of the outlines, highlights, and quizzes for your textbook with optional online comprehensive practice tests. Only Cram101 is Textbook Specific. Accompanies: 9780872893795. This item is printed on demand.

Studyguide for Transmission and Population Genetics by Benjamin Pierce, Isbn 9781429254946
Studyguide for Transmission and Population Genetics by Benjamin Pierce, Isbn 9781429254946

Author: Cram101 Textbook Reviews

Publisher: Cram101

Published: 2012-07

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 9781478409106

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Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again! Virtually all of the testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events from the textbook are included. Cram101 Just the FACTS101 studyguides give all of the outlines, highlights, notes, and quizzes for your textbook with optional online comprehensive practice tests. Only Cram101 is Textbook Specific. Accompanys: 9781429254946 .

Populations Genetics of Humans
Populations Genetics of Humans

Author: Christine Langhoff

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2003-06-07

Total Pages: 11

ISBN-13: 3638195244

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Essay from the year 2002 in the subject Biology - Genetics / Gene Technology, grade: 2.1 (B), Oxford University (New College), language: English, abstract: The aim of population genetics is to model the dynamics of evolutionary change within and between populations i.e. a group of individuals who exist together in time and space and are capable of interbreeding. In human DNA approximately 0.08% of the nucleotide base pairs varies among individuals and thus populations genetics has been trying to establish why this is so. Four basic evolutionary forces responsible for genetic diversity in populations have been identified: mutation, natural selection, genetic drift and gene flow. Mutations are copying errors during DNA replication and transcriptions, which introduce new alleles into the population. Natural selection is the differential transmission of alleles into the next generation due to the consequences of functional differences on an individual’s survival and reproductive success. Genetic drift is the differential transmission of alleles into the next generation as a result of random sampling and has the greatest potential impact in small populations. Gene flow spreads alleles from one population into another via migration, making them more genetically similar to each other, and countering genetic differentiation by drift. I am going to examine the contribution of genetic drift, gene flow and natural selection to the levels of diversity and composition of genetic polymorphisms in different human populations. Further I am going to examine why some populations have greater diversity than others and compare the patterns of genetic diversity of humans and chimpanzees.