For all introductory genetics courses.

Teach students core genetics concepts and applications

Concepts of Genetics emphasizes the fundamental ideas of genetics, while exploring modern techniques and applications of genetic analysis. This best-selling text continues to provide understandable explanations of complex, analytical topics and recognizes the importance of teaching students how to become effective problem solvers.

The 12th Edition has been extensively updated to provide comprehensive coverage of important, emerging topics such as CRISPR-Cas and the study of posttranscriptional gene regulation in eukaryotes. An expanded emphasis on ethical considerations that genetics is bringing into everyday life is addressed in Genetics, Ethics, and Society and Case Study features.

Hallmark features of this title

• A Concept Question in the Problems and Discussion Questions asks the student to review and comment on common aspects of the Key Concepts listed at the beginning of each chapter.
• How Do We Know? questions ask students to identify the experimental basis underlying important concepts and conclusions, that is, how we know what we know.
• Evolving Concept of the Gene is a short feature in appropriate chapters that highlights how scientists' understanding of what a gene is has changed over time.
• Exploring Genomics boxes help students apply genetics to modern techniques such as genomics, bioinformatics and proteomics.
• Now Solve This Problems throughout each chapter test student knowledge and include a hint and a brief answer is provided in the appendix.

New and updated features of this title

• Genetics, Ethics, and Society essays provide a synopsis of an ethical issue related to a current finding in genetics that impacts directly on society today. The Your Turn section directs students to resources to support deeper investigation and discussion of the essay's topic.
• Special Topics in Modern Genetics present 2 new mini-chapters that explore cutting-edge topics, including CRISPR-Cas and Genomic Editing and Advances in Neurogenetics: The Study of Huntington Disease. Questions help students review key ideas and facilitate group discussions.
• Reorganized and expanded coverage of gene regulation in eukaryotes reflects recent discoveries that reveal RNA in many forms play critical roles in the regulation of eukaryotic gene activity.
  • 1 chapter on gene regulation in eukaryotes has been expanded to 3: Transcriptional Regulation in Eukaryotes (Ch 17), Posttranscriptional Regulation in Eukaryotes (Ch 18), and Epigenetics (Ch 19).
• Case studies at the end of each chapter have been updated with new topics that link the coverage of formal genetic knowledge to everyday societal issues and include ethical considerations.