Biotechnology 101 / Brian Robert Shmaefsky.
| Author/creator | Shmaefsky, Brian |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006. |
| Description | xiv, 251 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Subjects |
| Series | Science 101, 1931-3950 Science 101. ^A712018 |
| Contents | 1. The definition of biotechnology -- Introduction -- Contemporary definitions of biotechnology -- Categories of biotechnology -- 2. Basic science of biotechnology -- Chemistry and physics of biotechnology -- Basic biology of biotechnology -- 3. The tools of biotechnology -- Introduction -- The tools -- Amino acid analyzers -- Amino acid sequencers -- Balance -- Bioreactor -- Blotting apparatus -- Centrifuge -- Chromatography -- Chromatogram scanner/densitometer -- Cryopreservation equipment -- Cytometer -- DNA sequencer -- Electrophoresis -- Electroporation instrument -- Filtration apparatus -- Gel reader -- Gene gun -- Incubator -- Isoelectric focusing apparatus -- LIMS -- Lyophilizer -- Microarray technology -- Microplate reader -- Microscope -- Microtome -- Mixer -- Nanotechnology -- Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging instrument -- Particle sizer -- pH meter -- Pipette -- Polarimeter -- Rheometer -- Spectrophotometer -- Thermocycler -- Thermometer probes -- Water bath -- Water titrator -- 4. Biotechnology innovations -- The creation of innovations -- History of biotechnology innovations -- Biotechnology innovations -- Genomic analysis techniques -- Genomic expression techniques -- Proteomics techniques -- Metabolomics -- Production of genetically modified organisms -- Cloning -- 5. Principal people of biotechnology -- Introduction -- Contributors to biotechnology -- Al-Kindi -- W. French Anderson -- Werner Arber -- Oswald T. Avery -- David Baltimore -- George W. Beadle -- William James Beal -- Paul Berg -- Herbert Boyer -- Sydney Brenner -- Pat Brown -- George Washington Carver -- Erwin Chargaff -- Martha Chase -- Stanley Cohen -- Stanley N. Cohen -- Francis S. Collins -- Gerty and Carl Cori -- Francis Crick -- Charles Darwin -- Félix d'Herelle -- Max Delbrück -- Hugo de Vries -- Renato Dulbecco -- Paul Ehrlich -- Alexander Fleming -- Rosalind Franklin -- Galen -- Archibald Garrod -- Walter Gilbert -- Frederick Griffith -- Henry Harris -- Alfred Hershey -- David Ho -- Leroy Hood -- Robert Hooke -- John Hunter -- François Jacob -- Zacharias Janssen -- Alec Jeffreys -- Edward Jenner -- Ernest Everett Just -- Har Gobind Khorana -- Shibasaburo Kitasato -- Robert Koch -- Arthur Kornberg -- Philip Leder -- Joshua Lederberg -- Antony van Leeuwenhoek -- Rita Levi-Montalcini -- Salvador Luria -- André Lwoff -- Barbara McClintock -- Ilya Mechnikov -- Gregor Mendel -- Johann Friedrich Miescher -- César Milstein -- Jacques Monod -- Thomas Morgan -- Hermann Muller -- Kary Mullis -- Daniel Nathans -- Marshall Nirenberg -- Severo Ochoa -- Reiji and Tsuneko Okazaki -- Richard Palmiter -- Louis Pasteur -- Linus Pauling -- Max Perutz -- Stanley Prusiner -- Steven Rosenberg -- Pierre Paul Emile Roux -- Robert Rushmer -- Frederick Sanger -- Matthias Schleiden -- Theodor Schwann -- Maxine Singer -- Lazzaro Spallanzani -- Hermann Staudinger -- Nettie Stevens -- Alfred Henry Sturtevant -- Walter Sutton -- Wacław Szybalski -- Howard Temin -- Arne Tiselius -- Alexander Todd -- Harold Varmus -- Craig Venter -- Rudolf Virchow -- James Watson -- Maurice Wilkins -- Ian Wilmut -- Glossary. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-245) and index. |
| LCCN | 2006024555 |
| ISBN | 0313335281 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780313335280 (alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | TP248.215 .S56 2006 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |