Animated primer on DNA, genes, etc. (28/12/2000) | |
DNA from the Beginning Other introductory web pages: 'What is a gene?' - beginner's guide from New Internationalist http://www.oneworld.org/ni/issue293/simply.html Simple explanation of what GE is from PSRAST http://home1.swipnet.se/~w-18472/whatisge.htm Short history of biotech: neolithic to 1988 in half a web page! from Pat Radin's informative site on GE and cloning http://students.washington.edu/radin/history.htm Genetic engineering for kids a website for kids (of any age!) courtesy of Tiki the penguin http://www.oneworld.org/penguin/genetics/home.html BUT for a radical questioning of some of the key assumptions about what 'genes' are and how they operate, see 'The Century of the Gene' by Evelyn Fox Keller |