Człowiek wobec genów
Humans and genes

Author(s): Magdalena Fikus
Subject(s): Psychology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: gene; nucleic acids; genetic code; genetic engineering; biotechnology
Summary/Abstract: The author outlines the situation of researchers and lists high points in geneticists’ work as examples of transgressive actions: 1) providing evidence of the existence of real inheritance particles, 2) showing that genetic information is recorded in twostrand DNA molecules, 3) discovering the universal genetic code in the DNA helix, 4) determining the structure of different genomes, 5) developing genetic engineering techniques, 6) describing the collective human genome, 7) identifying mutations leading to genetic diseases in humans.

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