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by Watson, James

ligase

  linguistic evolution

  linkage analysis

  linkage map

  lithoautotrophs

  love

  Luria, Salvador

  Lwoff, André

  Lysenko, Trofim

  Lysenkoism

  lysine

  McCarty, Maclyn

  McClintock, Barbara

  McKusick, Victor

  Macleod, Colin

  McPherson, John

  mad cow disease see bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE: mad cow disease)

  malaria

  Manhattan Project

  Maniatis, Tom

  marriage customes

  mass spectrometer

  Massachusetts General Hospital

  Matthaei, Heinrich

  Max Hoffman Foundation

  Medical Research Councl (MRC)

  Mein Kampf (Hitler)

  melanin

  melanocortin receptor

  Melchett, Lord Peter

  melting

  men, history of

  Mendel, Gregor

  Mendelism

  mental ability, genetics of differences in

  mental illness

  mental retardation

  Meselson, Matt

  Meselson-Stahl experiment

  messenger RNA

  edited

  isolating

  metabolism, error in

  methionine

  microarray

  microbes

  microbial genomes

  microbiology

  Miescher, Friedrich

  Mieth, Dietmar

  migration, men/women

  Milstein, César

  minimal genome project

  Mirsky, Alfred

  Mirzabekov, Andrei

  MIT

  Whitehead Institute

  mitochondria

  mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)

  analysis

  demographic differences between the sexes

  in DNA fingerprinting

  family tree

  Neanderthal

  sequences

  variation in Amerindians

  women

  mobile elements

  model organisms

  model–building/models

  Modell, Bernadette

  molecular anthropology

  molecular approaches to evolution

  molecular biologists

  molecular biology

  academic/commercial

  as big business

  cut–and–paste tools of

  hunt for genes

  industrial–scale

  public paranoia about

  molecular biology revolution

  molecular clock

  Molecular Cloning

  molecular code

  molecular genetics

  molecules

  3–D structure

  underpinning life

  Monaco, Tony

  Monarch butterfly

  monkey virus

  monkeys

  monoamine oxidase

  monoamines

  monoclonal antibody (MAB) technology

  see also antibodies

  Monod, Jacques

  monozygotic (MZ)

  Monsanto (co.)

  "Roundup Ready" technology

  moral intuition

  "Moratorium Letter"

  Morgan, Michael

  Morgan, Thomas Hunt

  Morgan's boys

  Mormon church

  mouse

  genetic manipulations in

  genome

  mobile elements in

  odor-detecting genes

  transcriptome for

  mtDNA see mitochondrial DNA (MTDNA)

  Muller, Herman J.

  Müller-Hill, Benno

  Mullis, Kary

  Murderous Science (Muller–Hill)

  Murray, Charles

  Muscular Dystrophy Association of America

  mutants

  mutations

  beneficial

  in cancer

  disease–causing

  in DMD

  in DNA sequences

  eliminated by natural selection

  in ethnic groups

  fruit fly

  and health insurance

  in hemoglobin gene

  and human differences from chimpanzees

  in Huntington disease

  induced in tropical bread mold

  mapping

  pea plants

  rate of accumulation

  repetitive DNA

  sickle-cell gene

  specific

  variation through

  X-rays cause

  Y chromosome

  Mycoplasma

  Mycoplasma genitalium

  Myerowitz, Rachel

  Myers, Gene

  Myobacterium tuberculosis

  myoglobin

  Myriad Genetics (co.)

  Nagasaki

  Nageli, Karl

  Nama people

  National Academy of Sciences (NAS)

  National Center for Human Genome Research

  National Institutes of Health (NIH)

  and HGP

  Human Gene Therapy Subcommittee

  Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC)

  recombinant DNA research guidelines

  Native Americans

  see also Amerindians

  natualistic fallacy

  natural experiments

  natural selection

  affecting genetic variation

  in behavior

  in body shape

  evolution by

  and genome size

  moral intuition shaped by

  and mutations

  mutations eliminated by

  mutations favored by

  in plants

  power of

  sickle-cell gene

  in skin color

  in social interaction

  Nature of the Chemical Bond, The (Pauling)

  Nature (journal)

  nature/nurture

  debate

  effects on intelligence

  twin studies

  Nazis

  eugenics

  Neanderthals

  displace by H. sapiens

  mtDNA

  nematode worm

  Neufeld, Peter

  neurobiology

  neurogibromatosis (Elephant Man disease)

  Neurospora crassa, bread mold

  neurotransmitters

  New World

  Niccols, Andrew

  Nicholas II, Tsar

  Nilotic form

  Nirnberg, Marshall

  Nobel Committee

  Nobel Prize

  Chemistry

  in Chemistry

  in Physics

  in Physiology or Medicine

  Noller, Harry

  Norrish, Ronald

  novelty, genetic

  nucleic acids

  nucleotide(s)

  nucleus

  nurture

  helping with

  see also nature/nurture

  Nüssein-Volhard, Christine "Janni"

  odor receptors

  Ogilvie, Bridget

  Olson, Maynard

  onco-mouse

  onion

  genome

  O'Reilly, Michael

  organic farmers

  organophosphate pesticides

  Origin of Species, The (Darwin)

  ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency (OTC)

  ovarian cancer

  Oxford Ancestors (co.)

  P4 containment facility

  Pääbo, Svante

  pair-bonding in rodents

  "Pandora's Box Congress"

  pangenesis

  pangenesis

  paper chromatography

  parasitism

  Parkinson's disease

  Parsees

  Passing of the Great Race, The (Grant)

  Pasteur, Lo
uis

  patent(s)

  breast cancer genes

  Cohen–Boyer method

  genetically altered organisms

  human genes

  ideas

  methods

  new genes

  PCR

  speculative

  Paternity Index (PI)

  paternity testing

  patrilocality

  Pauling, Linus

  molecular approach to evolution

  PCR see polymerase chain reaction (PCR)

  pea plants

  Pearl, Raymond

  pedigrees

  standard set of

  peptide bonds

  Perkin Elmer (co.)

  personality

  Perutz, Max

  pesticides

  genes as

  risks with

  Phage Group

  pharmaceuticals

  companies

  research

  phenylalanine

  phenylalanine hydroxylase

  phenylketonuria (PKU)

  phosphodiesterases

  physical mapping

  physicists

  physics

  pigmentation

  Pioneer Hi-Bred International

  Pitchfork, Colin

  plasmid(s)

  combining

  exchanging

  hybrid

  replicating

  Plomin, Robert

  pneumonia bacteria (Pneumococcus)

  polio vaccination program

  politics

  genetics and

  science and

  poly-U

  polygenic/complex trait

  polymerase chain reaction (PCR)

  amplification

  commercial application

  DNA diagnosis

  polypeptides

  chains

  population genetics

  population screening

  population(s)

  genetically isolated

  natural

  small

  studies

 

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