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"This second edition aims to retain the concise and practical approach of the first, with material updated to include an integrated treatment of prokaryotic and eukaryotic molecular biology. Each chapter is illustrated and includes an extensive list of important references to the primary literature, as well as many thought-provoking problems on material covered in the text, or on related topics. These help to focus the student's attention on a variety of critical issues. Solutions are provided for half the problems. Topics include: cell structure, nucleic acid structure, DNA synthesis, RNA synthesis, RNA processing, protein structure, protein synthesis, genetics, genetic engineering, ""lac"" Operon, ""ara"" Operon, ""trp"" Operon, lambda phage, xenopus 5S RNA, yeast mating type, development, lambda integration, transposable elements, antibodies, biological assembly, chemotaxis and oncogenesis. Robert Schleif is the co-author of ""Practical Methods in Molecular Biology""."

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The lessons here in dealing with the information explosion in biology are that an ounce of rationale is worth a pound of facts and that, for educational value, there is nothing to beat an author writing about stuff he knows from the inside. --'Nature'

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Robert Schleif is a professor in the department of biology at the Johns Hopkins University and the co-author of 'Practical Methods in Molecular Biology'. He has been the recipient of a Helen Hay Whitney Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Harvard University and an NIH Career Development Award. His current research utilizes genetics, physiology, and recombinant DNA technology to study the mechanism of regulation of the 'E. coli' L-arabinose operon.

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