RT Book, Section
A1 Carroll, Karen C.
A1 Hobden, Jeffery A.
A1 Miller, Steve
A1 Morse, Stephen A.
A1 Mietzner, Timothy A.
A1 Detrick, Barbara
A1 Mitchell, Thomas G.
A1 McKerrow, James H.
A1 Sakanari, Judy A.
SR Print(0)
ID 1114732877
T1 Microbial Genetics
T2 Jawetz, Melnick, & Adelberg’s Medical Microbiology, 27e
YR 2019
FD 2019
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071824989
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1114732877
RD 2024/04/24
AB The  science  of  genetics  defines  and  analyzes  heredity  of  the  vast  array  of  structural  and  physiologic  functions  that  form  the  properties  of  organisms.  The  basic  unit  of  heredity  is  the  gene,  a  segment  of  deoxyribonucleic  acid  (DNA)  that  encodes  in  its  nucleotide  sequence  information  for  a  specific  physiologic  property.  The  traditional  approach  to  genetics  has  been  to  identify  genes  on  the  basis  of  their  contribution  to  phenotype,  or  the  collective  structural  and  physiologic  properties  of  an  organism.  A  phenotypic  property,  be  it  eye  color  in  humans  or  resistance  to  antibiotics  in  a  bacterium,  is  generally  observed  at  the  level  of  the  organism.  The  chemical  basis  for  variation  in  phenotype  is  change  in  genotype,  or  alteration  in  the  DNA  sequence,  within  a  gene  or  within  the  organization  of  genes.