Scientific American Books

Preface Biology today is scarcely recognizable as the subject that biologists knew and taught 10 years ago. A decade ago, gene structure and function in the simple cells of bacteria were known in considerable detail. But now we also know that a different set of molecular rules governs gene...

Preface Biology today is scarcely recognizable as the subject that biologists knew and taught 10 years ago. A decade ago, gene structure and function in the simple cells of bacteria were known in considerable detail. But now we also know that a different set of molecular rules governs gene...