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DNA
The Secret of Life
by James D. Watson, Andrew Berry
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Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: Knopf (January 01 2003)
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Chapter 1: Beginnings of Genetics: From Mendel to Hitler
My mother, Bonnie Jean, believed in genes. She was proud of her father's Scottish origins, and saw in him the traditional Scottish virtues of honesty, hard work, and thriftiness. She, too, possessed these qualities and felt that they must have been passed


About the Author

James Dewey Watson, Ph.D.James Dewey Watson, Ph.D.

James D. Watson was director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York from 1968 to 1993 and is now its president. He was the first director of the National Center for Human Genome Research of the National Institutes of Health from 1989 to 1992. A member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society, he has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the National Medal of Science, and, with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1962.

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Andrew Berry, Ph.D.

Andrew Berry, with a Ph.D. in fruit fly genetics, is a research associate of Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology. A writer and teacher, he is the editor of a collection of the writings of the Victorian biologist Alfred Russel Wallace, Infinite Tropics..

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