Genetics and Randomness

by Anatoly Ruvinsky

Overview

Analyzes Randomness in Major Genetic Processes and EventsNo matter how far science advances, the proportion of what is knowable to what is random will remain unchanged, and attempts to ignore this critical threshold are futile at best. With the revolutionary explosion in genetic information discovery, it is crucially important to recognize the unde

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040208687
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	07/28/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Anatoly Ruvinsky, Ph.D., is a Professor of Genetics at the University of New England in Australia. He has published numerous papers in leading journals and has edited several books, including a series of six books on mammalian genetics. His major research interests lie in evolutionary and developmental genetics as well as bioinformatics.

Table of Contents

Limits and uncertainty in nature and logic. Quantum fluctuations, mutations, and "fixation" of uncertainty. Recombination and randomness. Uncertainty of development. Organized randomness. Random genetic drift and "deterministic" selection. Life: Making uncertainty certain.