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Genetics Essentials
Concepts and ConnectionsFourth Edition| ©2018New Edition Available Benjamin A. Pierce
Derived from his popular and acclaimed Genetics: A Conceptual Approach, Ben Pierce’s streamlined text covers basic transmission, molecular, and population genetics in just 18 chapters, helping students uncover major concepts of genetics and make connections among those concepts as a way
Derived from his popular and acclaimed Genetics: A Conceptual Approach, Ben Pierce’s streamlined text covers basic transmission, molecular, and population genetics in just 18 chapters, helping students uncover major concepts of genetics and make connections among those concepts as a way of gaining a richer understanding of the essentials of genetics.
With the new edition, Ben Pierce again focuses on the most pervasive problems for students taking genetics—understanding how genetics concepts connect to each other and developing solid problem solving skills. There is updated coverage of important research developments in genetics (CRISPR) and a new Active Learning feature, Think, Pair, Share. And with this edition, Genetics Essentials is available as a fully integrated text/media resource with SaplingPlus, an online solution that combines an e-book of the text, Pierce’s powerful multimedia resources, and Sapling’s robust genetics problem library.
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The essential concepts of genetics—in a seamlessly integrated text/media resource
Derived from his popular and acclaimed Genetics: A Conceptual Approach, Ben Pierce’s streamlined text covers basic transmission, molecular, and population genetics in just 18 chapters, helping students uncover major concepts of genetics and make connections among those concepts as a way of gaining a richer understanding of the essentials of genetics.
With the new edition, Ben Pierce again focuses on the most pervasive problems for students taking genetics—understanding how genetics concepts connect to each other and developing solid problem solving skills. There is updated coverage of important research developments in genetics (CRISPR) and a new Active Learning feature, Think, Pair, Share. And with this edition, Genetics Essentials is available as a fully integrated text/media resource with SaplingPlus, an online solution that combines an e-book of the text, Pierce’s powerful multimedia resources, and Sapling’s robust genetics problem library.
Features
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Think-Pair-Share Exercises
With this active learning feature (in the book and online in SaplingPlus), students work on exercises in pairs or groups in class. Each chapter includes one or two Think-Pair-Share exercises about the chapter-opening story, and more at the end of the chapter. These exercises sometimes ask students to think about genetics in social, ethical, and applied contexts, and may involve connecting material from other chapters.
SaplingPlus for Genetics Essentials, 4e
The new Fourth Edition of Genetics Essentials is now natively supported in SaplingPlus, with an online solution that combines an e-book of the text, Pierce’s powerful multimedia resources, and the robust genetics problem library of Sapling Learning. It’s an extraordinary new learning resource.
Highlights of SaplingPlus
The help students need, when they need it
With SaplingPlus, students practice and solidify foundational knowledge in basic coverage questions before applying those concepts to complex and engaging problem-solving style questions. Students will practice skills ranging from abstract thinking to article comprehension to data analysis and more.
Interactives to engage students
These tools can be used in lecture, in small group or lab settings, as well as in graded homework assignments. SaplingPlus for Pierce includes interactives on Evolutionary Trees, Punnett Squares, Karyotypes, Transcription Regulation in Prokaryotes and more.
Problem Solving Videos to develop essential skills
These videos cover tough topics like epistasis, dihybrid crosses, gene mapping, and pedigree analysis.
End-of-Chapter Questions in Sapling’s acclaimed format
Ben Pierce has long been praised for the quality of his end-of-chapter exercises. Many of those exercises from the new edition of Genetics Essentials have been converted into automatically gradable problems in SaplingPlus. Each question features a Hint, a completely worked solution, and feedback directed to the error the student made.
“I flipped the course and introduced active learning. Students read and watch animations and videos at home (LaunchPad helps enormously here) and during class time students are working on application problems in groups. Including case studies in textbook support material will really help.” Follow-up discussion quote: “The media plan sounds like an improvement over the current system as long as it continues to offer animations and the different resources as well as the questions. New questions types sound great.”
- Helena Schmidtmayerova
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction to Genetics2. Chromosomes and Cellular Reproduction
3. Basic Principles of Heredity
4. Extensions and Modifications of Basic Principles
5. Linkage, Recombination, and Eukaryotic Gene Mapping
6. Chromosome Variation
7. Bacterial and Viral Genetic Systems
8. DNA: The Chemical Nature of the Gene
9. DNA Replication and Recombination
10. From DNA to Proteins: Transcription and RNA Processing
11. From DNA to Proteins: Translation
12. Control of Gene Expression
13. Gene Mutations, Transposable Elements, and DNA Repair
14. Molecular Genetic Analysis and Biotechnology
15. Genomics and Proteomics
16. Cancer Genetics
17. Quantitative Genetics
18. Population and Evolutionary Genetics
Authors

Benjamin A. Pierce
Benjamin Pierce is Professor of Biology and holder of the Lillian Nelson Pratt Chair at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, where he teaches courses in genetics and evolution. He previously taught at Connecticut College and Baylor University. Ben is a population geneticist who conducts ecological and evolutionary research on amphibians. He has authored a number of articles in research journals and several books, including The Family Genetics Sourcebook, Genetics: A Conceptual Approach, Genetics Essentials: Concepts and Connections, and Transmission and Population Genetics: A Short Course. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi and is a fellow of the Texas Academy of Science. He has received grants from the Natural Science Foundation, the W. M. Keck Foundation, the 3M Foundation, the National Park Service, the Williamson County Conservation Foundation, and the National Geographic Society.
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