A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life
J. Craig Venter
(Penguin Books, 2008)
A Monk and Two Peas: The Story of Gregor Mendel and the Discovery of Genetics
Robin Marantz Henig
(Weidenfield & Nicolson, 2000)
Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the National Philosophy of Modern Biology
Jacques Monod
(Fontana, 1974)
Creation: The Origin of Life / The Future of Life
Adam Rutherford
(Penguin Books, 2014)
Epigenetics: How Environment Shapes Our Genes
Richard C. Francis
(W. W. Norton & Company, 2012)
Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code
Matt Ridley
(Harper Press, 2006)
Genetics: Analysis and Principles
Robert R. Brooker
(McGraw-Hill Education; 6th edn, 2016)
Genetic Analysis: An Integrated Approach
Mark F. Sanders and John L. Bowman
(Pearson; 2nd edn, 2015)
Here Is a Human Being: At the Dawn of Personal Genomics
Misha Angrist
(Harper Perennial, 2011)
Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human
Matt Ridley
(Harper Perennial; new edn, 2004)
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
(Oxford University Press; rev. edn, 2008)
Redesigning Humans: Choosing Our Genes, Changing Our Future
Gregory Stock
(Houghton Mifflin, 2003)
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
Brenda Maddox
(Harper Collins; new edn, 2003)
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
James Watson
(Penguin Books; 2nd rev. edn, 1999)
The Eighth Day of Creation: The Makers of the Revolution in Biology
Horace Freeland Judson
(Cold Spring Harbor Press, 1979)
The Epigenetics Revolution
Nessa Carey
(Icon Books, 2012)
The Gene: An Intimate History
Siddhartha Mukherjee
(Scribner Book Company, 2016)
The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine
Francis S. Collins
(Harper, 2010)
The Panda’s Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
Stephen Jay Gould
(W. W. Norton & Company, 1980)
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
(Oxford University Press, 1976)
The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment
Richard Lewontin
(Harvard University Press, 2002)
A free website for students, educators and interested citizens that offers up-to-date information on genetics and biotechnology.
A primer on the 75 experiments that have defined modern genetics, complete with animations, interviews and more.
A free resource with a wide range of explanations, activities and experiments aimed at anyone with an interest in genetics.
The website of the National Human Genome Research Institute which participated in the Human Genome Project.
A genome browser for vertebrate genomes that supports research in comparative genomics, and provides tools for studying genome evolution, variation and regulation.
OMIM is the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, providing an online catalogue of human genes and genetic disorders.