This new brief version of Benjamin Pierce’s Genetics: A Conceptual Approach, Second Edition, responds to a growing trend of focusing the introductory course on transmission and population genetics and covering molecular genetics separately.

 

The book is comprised of following chapters an case studies from Pierce's complete text:
1. Introduction to Genetics
2. Chromosomes and Cellular Reproduction
3. Basic Principles of Heredity
4. Sex Determination and Sex-Linked Characteristics
5. Extensions and Modifications of Basic Principles
6. Pedigree Analysis and Applications
    INTEGRATIVE CASE STUDY Phenylketonuria: Part I
7. Linkage, Recombination, and Eukaryotic Gene Mapping
8. Bacterial and Viral Genetic Systems
9. Chromosome Variation
     INTEGRATIVE CASE STUDY Phenylketonuria: Part II
22. Quantitative Genetics
23. Population Genetics and Molecular Evolution
      INTEGRATIVE CASE STUDY Phenylketonuria: Part III