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machines
autosome
Aventis (co.)
Avery, Oswald
Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt)
bacteria
antibiotic resistance in
copies of DNA fragment
genetically modified
inducing to produce human protein
"safe,"
sequencing
bacterial artificial chromosomes (BACs)
bacterial genomes
bacteriophage/phage
Baltimore, David
Bardeen, John
Barrell, Bart
base(s)
base pairs
completion of 3.1 billion
in human genome
sequencing
Basques
Bateson, William
Baylor College of Medicine
Beachy, Roger
Beadle, George
behavior
genetic component to
inheritance of
behavioral genetics
behavioral evolution
behaviorism
bell curve
Bell Curve, The (Murray and Herrnstein)
Benzer, Seymour
Berg, Paul
Bermuda principles
beta-galactosidase
beta-thalassemia
Bethe, Hans
bicoid
Big Bang
biochemists
Biogen(co.)
biohazards
bioinformatics
biological information
biologists
biological revolution
biology
biopiracy
biotech companies/industry
biotechnology
agricultural
and the law
plant
precision of
bipolar disease (BPD)
Birney, Ewan
birth control
Blaese, Michael
Blair, Tony
Blassie, Michael
Blattner, Fred
blood cells
body shape
natural selection in
Botstein, David
Bouchard, Tom
Boule, Marcellin
Boveri, Theodor
bovine growth hormone (BGH)
bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE; mad cow disease)
Boyer, Herb
and biotechnology
Bragg, Sir Lawrence
brain
development
genetic disorders affecting
gene expression in
genes responsible for structure of
Neanderthals
BRCA1
BRCA2
Breakfield, Xandra
breast cancer
breast cancer genes
see also BRCA1 and BRCA2
Brenner, Sydney
fugu genome
and HGP
Britain
biobank program
Down syndrome incidence
Medical Research Council (MRC)
National Health Service
National DNA Database
Brown, Jennifer
Brown, Pat
Brunner, Hans
Bt
see Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt)
Buck, Carrie, case
Buraku
Burt, Sir Cyril
C. elegans
see also nematode worm
Calgene (co.)
Califano, Joseph
Caltech
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge University
Cavendish Laboratory
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
cancer
causes of
cell-killing approach
genes and
from pesticides
research
therapies, search for
candidate gene
Cann, Rebecca
carrier(s)
Carson, Rachel
Caspi, Avshalom
Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi Luca
CCR5 (gene)
cDNA
Cech, Tom
Celera Genomics
cell(s)
artificial
division
minimal
positional information in development
Celts
Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain (CEPH)
Centocor (co.)
cereals
Cetus Corporation
Chakrabarty, Ananda
characteristics
inherited
pedigrees constructed of
Chargaff, Erwin
Charles II of Spain
Charles, Prince of Wales
Chase, Martha
chemistry
is essence of life
chemists
children
genetic disadvantage
genetic disorders
learning
as tabula rasa
Chilton, Mary-Dell
chimpanzees
gene enhancement
genome compared with human
human similarities to
variation
chimpanzee genome project
China
chorionic villus sampling
chromosome(s)
abnormalities
artificial
correlating genes with
duplicating
gene density
human/chimpanzee
location
number of
sequences
chromosome
gene density
sequence of
chromosome
gene density
sequencing
chronic myeloid leukemia (CML)
climate, and body shape
Cline, Martin
Clinton, Bill
cloning/molecular cloning
Cohen-Boyer method
insulin
interferon
"jumping" techniques
perils in
research
Cochran, Bill
code–script
Gamow–type
CODIS (Combined DNA Index System)
codons
Cohen, Daniel
Cohen, Stanley
and biotechnology
Cohen–Boyer method
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
cancer study
conference on DNA fingerprinting
conferences
Dolan DNA Learning Center
Eugenics Record Office
experimental plots vandalized
gene-cloning techniques
meeting on human genetics at
symposium on viruses
Collaborative Research, Inc.
Collins, Francis
Colombia
Columbia University
common ancestor
recentness of
common descent
concentration gradient
concordance
conflicts of interest
consciousness
Coolidge, Calvin
corn
creationism
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Crick, Francis
"central dogma,"
and Gamow
neurobiology
Nobel Prize
and RNA
crime(s)
DNA analysis in
criminal prosecution
DNA fingerprinting in
cross-protection
crown gall disease
culture
Culver, Ken
Curie, Marie
Cutshall, Cindy
cystic fibrosis (CF)
mutation
testing for
treatment
cystic fibrosis gene
cytogeneticist
cytogenetics
cytosine (C)
Darwin, Charles<
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and Galton
theory of evolution
Darwin, Erasmus
Darwinism
database(s)
DNA records
genetic
Daubert vs. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals
Dausset, Jean
Davenport, Charles
Davies, Kay
Davis, Ron
DDT
deCODE Genetics (co.)
degenerate classes
de Jong, Pieter
Dekalb (co.)
Delbrück, Max
demographic factors
effect on family tree
deoxy/dideoxy bases
deoxynucleotides
Department of Defense Armed Forces Repository of Specimen Samples for the Identification of Remains
depression
see also bipolar disease
Desolate Year, The
determinism
development
fruit fly
genetic predictor of
molecular underpinnings of
views of
developmental biology
developmental genetics
diabetes
diagnosis
DNA–based
of mental illness
preemptive
see also prenatal diagnosis
diagnostics
testing
difference
chimpanzee/human
genetic basis for
directed molecular evolution
discrimination, genetic
disease(s)
ethnicity and
genetics of
inherited
mutations causing
predisposition to
preventing
see also genetic disease/disorder
disease gene(s)
mapping
divergence
dizygotic (DZ)
DMD
see Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD)