Life's greatest secret : the race to crack the genetic code /

Cobb, Matthew.

Life's greatest secret : the race to crack the genetic code / Matthew Cobb. - xiv, 434 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

"First published in Great Britain in 2015 by Profile Books Ltd"--Title-page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-404) and index.

Genes before DNA -- Information is everywhere -- The transformation of genes -- A slow revolution -- The age of control -- The double helix -- Genetic information -- The central dogma -- Enzyme cybernetics -- Enter the outsides -- The race -- Update -- Surprises and sequences -- The central dogma revisited -- Brave new world -- Origins and meanings.

The story of the discovery and cracking of the genetic code, the thing that ultimately enables a spiraling molecule to give rise to the life that exists all around us.

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DNA.
Genetic code.

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