The ABCs of Gene Cloning

• Main Author: Wong, Dominic W. S. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 3rd ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Human genetics.; Food-Biotechnology.; Plant physiology.; Zoology.; Human Genetics.; Food Science.; Plant Physiology.

Clear and concise, this easy-to-use book offers an introductory course on the language of gene cloning, covering microbial, plant, and mammalian systems. It presents the nuts and bolts of gene cloning in a well-organized and accessible manner. Part I of this book outlines the essentials of biology a...

Table of Contents:

• Fundamentals of Genetic Processes
• Introductory Concepts
• Structures of Nucleic Acids
• Structures of Proteins
• The Genetic Process
• Organization of Genes
• Reading The Nucleotide Sequence of a Gene
• Techniques and Strategies of Gene Cloning
• Enzymes Used in Cloning
• Techniques Used in Cloning
• Cloning Vectors for Introducing Genes into Host Cells
• Transformation
• Isolating Genes for Cloning
• Impact of Gene Cloning
• Improving Tomato Quality by Antisense Rna
• Transgenic Crops Engineered with Insecticidal Activity
• Transgenic Crops Conferred with Herbicide Resistance
• Growth Enhancement in Transgenic Fish
• Impact of Gene Cloning
• Microbial Production of Recombinant Human Insulin
• Finding Disease-Causing Genes
• Human Gene Therapy
• Gene Targeting
• DNA Typing
• Transpharmers - Bioreactors for Pharmaceutical Products
• Animal Cloning
• Human Genome Sequencing
• Manipulating Gene Vector Constructs.