| Physical description |
xiv, 251 pages : illustrations |
| Series |
Science 101 series, 1931-3950
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Science 101.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-245) and index. |
| Contents |
1. The definition of biotechnology -- Introduction -- Contemporary definitions of biotechnology -- Categories of biotechnology -- 2. Basic science of biotechnology -- Chemistry and physics of biotechnology -- Basic biology of biotechnology -- 3. The tools of biotechnology -- Introduction -- The tools -- Amino acid analyzers -- Amino acid sequencers -- Balance -- Bioreactor -- Blotting apparatus -- Centrifuge -- Chromatography -- Chromatogram scanner/densitometer -- Cryopreservation equipment -- Cytometer -- DNA sequencer -- Electrophoresis -- Electroporation instrument -- Filtration apparatus -- Gel reader -- Gene gun -- Incubator -- Isoelectric focusing apparatus -- LIMS -- Lyophilizer -- Microarray technology -- Microplate reader -- Microscope -- Microtome -- Mixer -- Nanotechnology -- Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging instrument -- Particle sizer -- pH meter -- Pipette -- Polarimeter -- Rheometer -- Spectrophotometer -- Thermocycler -- Thermometer probes -- Water bath -- Water titrator -- 4. Biotechnology innovations -- The creation of innovations -- History of biotechnology innovations -- Biotechnology innovations -- Genomic analysis techniques -- Genomic expression techniques -- Proteomics techniques -- Metabolomics -- Production of genetically modified organisms -- Cloning -- 5. Principal people of biotechnology -- Introduction -- Contributors to biotechnology -- Al-Kindi -- W. French Anderson -- Werner Arber -- Oswald T. Avery -- David Baltimore -- George W. Beadle -- William James Beal -- Paul Berg -- Herbert Boyer -- Sydney Brenner -- Pat Brown -- George Washington Carver -- Erwin Chargaff -- Martha Chase -- Stanley Cohen -- Stanley N. Cohen -- Francis S. Collins -- Gerty and Carl Cori -- Francis Crick -- Charles Darwin -- Félix d'Herelle -- Max Delbrück -- Hugo de Vries -- Renato Dulbecco -- Paul Ehrlich -- Alexander Fleming -- Rosalind Franklin -- Galen -- Archibald Garrod -- Walter Gilbert -- Frederick Griffith -- Henry Harris -- Alfred Hershey -- David Ho -- Leroy Hood -- Robert Hooke -- John Hunter -- François Jacob -- Zacharias Janssen -- Alec Jeffreys -- Edward Jenner -- Ernest Everett Just -- Har Gobind Khorana -- Shibasaburo Kitasato -- Robert Koch -- Arthur Kornberg -- Philip Leder -- Joshua Lederberg -- Antony van Leeuwenhoek -- Rita Levi-Montalcini -- Salvador Luria -- André Lwoff -- Barbara McClintock -- Ilya Mechnikov -- Gregor Mendel -- Johann Friedrich Miescher -- César Milstein -- Jacques Monod -- Thomas Morgan -- Hermann Muller -- Kary Mullis -- Daniel Nathans -- Marshall Nirenberg -- Severo Ochoa -- Reiji and Tsuneko Okazaki -- Richard Palmiter -- Louis Pasteur -- Linus Pauling -- Max Perutz -- Stanley Prusiner -- Steven Rosenberg -- Pierre Paul Emile Roux -- Robert Rushmer -- Frederick Sanger -- Matthias Schleiden -- Theodor Schwann -- Maxine Singer -- Lazzaro Spallanzani -- Hermann Staudinger -- Nettie Stevens -- Alfred Henry Sturtevant -- Walter Sutton -- Wacław Szybalski -- Howard Temin -- Arne Tiselius -- Alexander Todd -- Harold Varmus -- Craig Venter -- Rudolf Virchow -- James Watson -- Maurice Wilkins -- Ian Wilmut -- Glossary. |
| Summary |
A biotechnology overview containing an introduction to the field; articles on alphabetized topics such as amino acid analyzers and sequencers, electrophoresis, and nanotechnology; information on biotechnology innovations; short biographies of approximately ninety important figures; a glossary; and an annotated list of resources. |
| Subject |
Biotechnology.
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Bioengineering.
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| ISBN |
0313335281 (alk. paper) |
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9780313335280 (alk. paper) |
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9798400619205 |
| Standard Number |
10.5040/9798400619205 |
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