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Index
Cover
Introduction
Your Cells’ Instruction Manual
Atoms and Molecules
Nucleotides
The Double Helix
How all that DNA Fits into Cells
Transcription and RNA
What Proteins Do
Translation and Proteins
Turning Genes On and Off
Mutations
What RNA Can Do
Chromosomes and Cells
Bacteria and the Microbiome
Viruses
Mushrooms and Yeast
Plants and Crops
Making More Cells
DNA Replication
Making Sperm Cells
Making and Fertilizing Egg Cells
Sex Chromosomes
Why Two Copies?
How We Inherit Our Traits
Dominant and Recessive
X-Linked Traits
Mitochondrial DNA
Family Trees and Autosomal Inheritance Patterns
Special Inheritance Patterns
Nature Versus Nurture
Epigenetics
Traits Caused by Many Genes
Simple and Not-So-Simple Traits
Personal Genomics
Understanding Your Disease Risk
Where Humans Came From
How Much DNA Do You Share With a Stranger?
How Personal DNA Ancestry Services Work
Race, Ethnicity, and Ancestry
Relating to Your Relatives
A Family Tree for All Life
Evolution
DNA Repair
Cancer Genetics
Pharmacogenomics
Antibiotic Resistance
Questions and Ethical Quandaries
Genetically Modified Crops
Genetic Engineering Tools
CRISPR and Gene Editing
Cloning and De-Extinction
Babies of the Future
Glossary
Photographs
About the Author
Index
Copyright
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