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| 082 | _a570.72 END-G | ||
| 100 | _a Jim Endersby | ||
| 245 | _aA Guinea Pig's History of Biology | ||
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_a London _bWilliam Heinemann _c2007 |
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| 300 | _a xii, 499 pages ; 25 cm | ||
| 505 | _a Preface and acknowledgements -- 1. Equus quagga and Lord Morton's mare -- 2. Passiflora gracilis : inside Darwin's greenhouse -- 3. Homo sapiens : Francis Galton's fairground attraction -- 4. Hieracium auricula : what Mendel did next -- 5. Oenothera lamarckiana : Hugo de Vries led up the primrose path -- 6. Drosophila melanogaster : bananas, bottles and Bolsheviks -- 7. Cavia porcellus : mathematical guinea pigs -- 8. Bacteriophage : the virus that revealed DNA -- 9. Zea mays : incorrigible corn -- 10. Arabidopsis thaliana : a fruit fly for the botanists -- 11. Danio rerio : seeing through zebrafish -- 12. OncoMouse® : engineering organisms -- Bibliography, sources and notes -- Index. | ||
| 650 | _a Animal experimentation -- History. Biology -- History. Biology -- Research -- History. | ||
| 942 | _cBK | ||