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Lewin's GENES X

Author(s): Jocelyn E. Krebs, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Alaska, Anchorage
Elliott S. Goldstein, PhD, Associate Professor, Arizona State University
Stephen T. Kilpatrick, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763766320
  • Product With Access Code    930 pages      © 2011
Price: International Sales $207.95 US List
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Overview

Every new copy of Lewin's GENES X includes access to the online Interactive Student Study Guide! 

The field of molecular biology and molecular genetics is rapidly changing with new data acquired daily and new insights into well-studied processes presented on a scale of weeks or months rather than years. For decades Lewin's GENES has provided the teaching community with the most cutting edge presentation of molecular biology and molecular genetics, covering gene structure, sequencing, organization, and expression. The latest edition, with a knowledgeable new author team, has enlisted 21 scientists to provide revisions and content updates in their individual fields of expertise, ensuring that Lewin's GENES X is the most current and comprehensive text in the field.  Informative new chapters, as well as a reorganization of material, provide a more logical flow of topics and many chapters have been renamed to better indicate their contents.  Lewin's GENES X also contains new pedagogical features to help students learn as they read and an online student study guide allows students to test themselves on key material.

The Interactive Student Study Guide includes many study aids and learning tools to enrich your study of molecular biology

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  • A NEW Chapter 3, Methods in Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering, provides an introduction to the concepts and practice of laboratory techniques in molecular biology early on in the text.
  • The inclusion of a NEW Chapter 8, Genome Evolution, combines, expands, and updates material that had been spread among various chapters in previous editions, and introduces a number of new topics.
  • The original introductory chapter on messenger RNA, Chapter 22 - mRNA Stability and Localization, has been entirely rewritten to cover more advanced topics.
     

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Part  1  Genes and Chromosomes
  Chapter  1  Genes Are DNA
  Chapter  2  Genes Code for Proteins
  Chapter  3  Methods in Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering
  Chapter  4  The Interrupted Gene
  Chapter  5  The Content of the Genome
  Chapter  6  Genome Sequences and Gene Numbers
  Chapter  7  Clusters and Repeats
  Chapter  8  Genome Evolution
  Chapter  9  Chromosomes
  Chapter  10  Chromatin
Part  2  Dna Replication and Recombination
  Chapter  11  The Replicon
  Chapter  12  Extrachromosomal Replicons
  Chapter  13  Bacterial Replication Is Connected to the Cell Cycle
  Chapter  14  DNA Replication
  Chapter  15  Homologous and Site-Specific Recombination
  Chapter  16  Repair Systems
  Chapter  17  Transposable Elements and Retroviruses
  Chapter  18  Somatic Recombination and Hypermutation in the Immune System
Part  3  Transcription and Posttranscriptional Mechanisms
  Chapter  19  Prokaryotic Transcription
  Chapter  20  Eukaryotic Transcription
  Chapter  21  RNA Splicing and Processing
  Chapter  22  mRNA Stability and Localization
  Chapter  23  Catalytic RNA
  Chapter  24  Translation
  Chapter  25  Using the Genetic Code
Part  4  Gene Regulation
  Chapter  26  The Operon
  Chapter  27  Phage Strategies
  Chapter  28  Eukaryotic Transcription Regulation
  Chapter  29  Epigenetic Effects Are Inherited
  Chapter  30  Regulatory RNA
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Jocelyn E. Krebs, PhD-Associate Professor, University of Alaska, Anchorage

Jocelyn E. Krebs has been a member of the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alaska Anchorage since 2000. She received her B.A. in Biological Sciences from Bard College in 1991 and her PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California Berkeley in 1997. Her research focuses on the mechanisms by which DNA transactions such as transcription and repair are accomplished in the context of chromatin. Her teaching interests are in Molecular Biology (taught at the undergraduate, graduate, and first-year medical school levels), as well as the Molecular Biology of Cancer.

 

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Elliott S. Goldstein, PhD-Associate Professor, Arizona State University

Elliott S. Goldstein earned his B.S. in Biology from the University of Hartford (Connecticut) and his Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of Minnesota, Department of Genetics and Cell Biology. Following this, he was awarded an N.I.H. Postdoctoral Fellowship to work with Dr. Sheldon Penman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Leaving Boston, he joined the faculty at Arizona State University in Tempe, where he is an Associate Professor in the Cellular, Molecular and Biosciences program in the School of Life Sciences, and in the Honors Disciplinary Program. His research interests are in the area of molecular and developmental genetics of early embryogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster. In recent years, he has focused on the Drosophila counterparts of the human proto-oncogenes jun and fos. His primary teaching responsibilities are in the undergraduate General Genetics course as well as the graduate level Molecular Genetics course. 

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Stephen T. Kilpatrick, PhD-Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown

Stephen T. Kilpatrick is an Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown (UPJ). He received a B.S.  in Biology for Eastern College (now Eastern University) and a PhD from the Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Brown University. His research an teaching interests are in evolutionary molecular genetics. UPJ is an undergraduate degree-granting campus of the University of Pittsburgh, and Dr. Kilpatrick regularly teaches undergraduate courses in majors introductory biology, genetics, evolution, molecular genetics, and biostatistics. Prior to coauthoring the Second Edition of Lewin's Essential Genes, Dr. Kilpatrick has co-authored the test banks for the first edition and for Lewin's GENES VIII and GENES IX. He has also authored ancillaries and pedagogical materials for several introductory non-majors and majors biology and genetics textbooks.

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ShowAppropriate Courses

Lewin's GENES X is appropriate for use in an upper-level undergraduate or graduate level molecular biology/molecular genetics course.

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    • show overview$180.95 Instructors Only

      Instructor's ToolKit CD-ROM

      ISBN-13: 9780763789473

      The Instructor's ToolKit to accompany GENES X includes: PowerPoint Lecture Slides and a PowerPoint Image Bank.

      The Test Bank, updated and expanded by author Stephen Kilpatrick, can be accessed HERE and includes 750 questions in a variety of formats.  It is compatible with most course management systems.

    • show overviewClick here to request access to these instructor resources.

      The following instructor resources are available to qualified instructors for download

      ISBN-13: 9780763766320

      Image Bank
      Lecture Outline
      Test Bank
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      GENES X Online Student Study Guide

      ISBN-13: 9780763785772
      This comprehensive study tool includes numerous activities that will help you get the most out of your course.  Activities include:
      • Bulleted chapter summaries
      • Flashcards
      • Crosswords
      • Interactive (searchable) glossary
      • Practice quizzes – multiple choice
      • Practice quizzes – short answer
      • Weblinks
  • Bundles
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      Lewin's GENES X with Apoptosis and Cancer Biology Online Chapters

      Bundle ISBN: 9781449601423
      This bundle includes Lewin's GENES X bundled with a code to access online chapters on Apoptosis and Cancer Biology.
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