Introduction to Genetic Analysis, 9th Edition PDF

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The author team welcomes a new coauthor, Sean B. Carroll, a recognized leader in the field of evolutionary development, to this new edition of Introduction to Genetic Analysis (IGA). The authors’ ambitious new plans for this edition focus on showing how genetics is practiced today. In particular, the new edition renews its emphasis on how genetic analysis can be a powerful tool for answering biological questions of all types.

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• Hardcover: 800 pages
• Publisher: W. H. Freeman and Company; 9th edition (February 16, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0716768879
• ISBN-13: 978-0716768876
• Product Dimensions: 1.3 x 9 x 11 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.5 pounds

Introduction to Genetic Analysis, 9th Edition PDF

I am taking an honors genetics course right now and I truly despise this book. I find the wording hard to understand and vague, and overly wordy. I asked my professor about the wordiness and sometimes she has a hard time deciphering what the book means, but since she knows what they are TRYING to convey she explains well. The book itself is also poorly organized.

For example, the first chapter is a dirty run through of DNA, structure, meiosis, and very basic proteins like helicase and ligase (not specific at all, a middle school kid should know these things). The next few deal with problems.

After a very basic run through (written at a middle school level and overly wordy as well), the book goes through virus replication, etc. Then they move onto epistatis, pleiotropy, etc., where they finally run you through how DNA itself replicates. What? Say what?! Shouldn't that have been the FIRST thing we learned?? How can we apply the concepts of pleiotropy when we don't even know how DNA replicates?

They give you one or two examples (and it's very simple, something you can breeze through in your head). Then a billion problems show up in the back, and many are very difficult because the book NEVER mentioned how to do them. You NEED the solutions manual for these. If you get the book and it's for a class, GET THE MANUAL. My entire exams were based off the questions in the back of the book. There are some statistics involved in some problems as well (never explained in the book and not even in the solutions manual), so get to know chi-square and certain tests very well in order to succeed in the class.

They explain some concepts not very clearly at all, and believe it or not, I had to go back to my 7th edition campbell&reece biology textbook to get some of the concepts, especially for DNA replication!! It was ridiculously unbelievable.

By Cindy Wang

This was the text book we used in my introductory genetics class over the summer. If it hadn't been for my prior exposure to the subject, I don't think I would have learned much at all by reading this book. Initial homework sets in the class comprised a selection of questions from this book, but these were soon replaced by other questions due to the confusing nature of the questions posed by the book. Sometimes the solutions manual (or the solutions in the back of the book) were wrong, or else the question was asked in such a way that nobody really knew what it was that was being asked until consulting the solutions.

Not only that, I was told by a friend who's a PhD candidate in bioinformatics that the information in various sections, such as the information about the number of SNPs, is outdated and sometimes flat-out wrong.

I definitely do not recommend this book.

By CHC