| Book Name | Understanding DNA, Molecule and How it Works |
| Author | Chris R. Calladine |
| Publish Year | 2004 |
| Publisher | Elsevier Ltd. |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Medical |
| ISBN | 0-12-155089-3 |
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Understanding DNA, Molecule and How it Works Review:
Understanding DNA, Molecule and How it Works is a book about DNA, the most central substance in the workings of all life on Earth. It is a book about the way in which DNA works at a molecular level. We have used the title Understanding DNA… because our subject has now reached the stage where many aspects of it are well enough understood for us to be able to give a clear and uncluttered presentation of the main ideas. But we shall not disguise the fact that there is still a great deal which is not known or understood.The book can be read at two different levels. First, it can be taken as an easy-to-read textbook for undergraduate or graduate students of chemistry and biology at university. Second, it may be read by ordinary people who have no prior knowledge of biochemistry, but who want to understand something of the fundamental processes of life. The sort of people we have in mind here are those who have learned something about DNA from popular magazines, newspapers, and TV programs. They know, for example, that DNA contains the ‘genes’ of classical genetics – those units of inheritance which pass on characteristics such as red hair or a long nose from parent to child, or even crippling diseases such as sickle-cell anemia or thalassemia.
