bacterial genome
vernalization
vertebrates
Vetter, David ("bubble boy")
Vibrio cholerae
Victoria, Queen
Victorians
Vikings
violence, genetics of
viral DNA
viruses
genome size
mutations in
vitalism
vitamin A deficiency
vitamin D3 synthesis
vitamins
voles
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Wallace, Henry
Washington University
Genome Sequence Center (St Louis)
Waterstone, Bob
Watson, John
Weber, Babara
Weber, James
weeds
Weismann, August
Weissenbach, Jean
Weissmann, Charles
Wellcome (co.)
Wellcome Trust
Wexler, Leonore
Wexler, Milton
Wexler, Nancy
What is Life? (Schrödinger),
wheat
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP)
White, Ray
"whole genome shotgun" (WGS)
approach
Wieschaus, Eric
Wigler, Michael
Wilkins, Maurice
Nobel prize
Williams syndrome
Williamson, Bob
Wilson, Allan
Wilson, E.O.
Wilson, James
Wilson, Rick
Winston, Robert
W.M. Keck Foundation
Woese, Carl
women, history
women's movement
World Trade Center
Wyeth (co.)
Wyman, Arlene
Wyngaarden, James
X chromosome
X-ray diffraction/crystallography
Y chromosome
in Jewish Diaspora
in male-female demographic differences
in paternity testing
yeast artificial chromosome(s) (YACs)
yeast cell cycle
yeast genome
yeast/human ancestor
Young, Larry
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