Molecular Biology, 2nd Edition

摘要

This is a handsome looking, well-written text aimed at survey courses in molecular biology for senior level undergraduates and beginning graduate students. The authors recognize that not all such students will have the necessary prerequisites for such a course and provide a few chapters of introduction to the material in the first unit in the book. These chapters actually make for good reading as they incorporate many gee-whiz type figures and facts. One is a colorful figure of a larval zebrafish brain; another is the fact that Lederberg was fortunate in choosing E. coli K-12 for his work, as it is one of the few bacterial strains that undergoes mating. It was also gratifying to see mention of Gosling's work in the first X-ray studies on DNA. Unfortunately, their description of X-ray crystallography is rather scant and they spend more words describing how to get protein crystals than how to get protein structures.