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100 most important science ideas : key concepts in genetics, physics and mathematics

Henderson, Mark 1974- (Author). Baker, Joanne, 1969- (Added Author). Crilly, A. J. (Added Author).

Summary: Explains the crucial concepts of 21st-century science including chaos theory, genetic diseases, string theory, gene therapy, fractals, superconductivity, cloning, and game theory. Each idea is simplified and presented in two to four pages that include illustrations and text boxes.

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ISBN: 1554075270
ISBN: 9781554075270
Physical Description: 431 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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Publisher: Richmond Hills, Ont. ; Buffalo, N.Y. : Firefly Books, 2009.

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Introduction -- Genetics -- The theory of evolution -- The laws of inheritance -- Genes and chromosomes -- Sex -- Genes, proteins and DNA -- The double helix -- Cracking the code of life -- Genetic engineering -- The human genome -- Lessons of the genome -- Genetic determinism -- Selfish genes -- Nature versus nurture -- Genetic diseases -- Gene hunting -- Cancer -- Behavioral genetics -- Genetic history -- Sex genes -- The battle of the sexes -- Genetic fingerprinting -- GM crops -- Evo-devo -- Stem cells -- Cloning -- Gene therapy -- Genetic testing -- Designer babies -- Junk DNA -- Copy number variation -- Epigenetics -- The RNA revolution -- Artificial life -- Physics -- Mach's principle -- Newton's laws of motion -- Kepler's laws -- Newton's law of gravitation -- Conservation of energy -- Second law of thermodynamics -- Newton's theory of color -- Huygens' principle -- Bragg's law -- Doppler effect -- Ohm's law -- Maxwell's equations -- Planck's law -- Photoelectric effect -- Schrödinger's wave equation -- Heisenberg's uncertainty principle -- Copenhagen interpretation -- Schrödinger's cat -- Rutherford's atom -- Antimatter -- Nuclear fission -- Nuclear fusion -- Standard model -- Special relativity -- General relativity -- Black holes -- Olbers' paradox -- Hubble's law -- The Big Bang -- Cosmic inflation -- Dark matter -- Cosmological constant -- Fermi paradox -- Anthropic principle -- Mathematics -- Pi -- Euler's number -- Infinity -- Imaginary numbers -- Primes -- Perfect numbers -- Fibonacci numbers -- Golden rectangles -- Pascal's triangle -- Algebra -- Logic -- Proof -- Sets -- Calculus -- Curves -- Topology -- Dimension -- Fractals -- Chaos -- The parallel postulate -- Graphs -- Probability -- Distributions -- The normal curve -- Connecting data -- Groups -- Matrices -- Codes -- Latin squares -- The diet problem -- Game theory -- Fermat's last theorem -- The Riemann hypothesis -- Glossary -- Index.