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Title: Blueprint for Life
| Grade Level: | 6 - 8, 9 - 12 |
| Other Uses: | general public education, teacher
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| Type: | Reference, supplementary material, student book |
| Authors: | Time-Life Books (ed.) |
| Publisher: | Time-Life Books |
| Year of pub.: | 1994 |
| Price: | $17.95 |
Description: Blueprint for Life is an attractive, coffee-table style book that is appropriate as a browsing book for the general public and students and is also valuable as a reference for teachers. The book uses a narrative approach and draws on many real-life examples (e.g. twin studies) to illustrate principles of human genetics.
Strengths: Blueprint is very readable and provides good examples. Excellent graphics and photographs support the text. This book is quick to engage and hold the reader's attention.
Weaknesses: This is not a comprehensive work; its aim is to pique the reader's interest. The overall organization could be improved. Because of the narrative approach, topics can be difficult to find.
Keywords: Inheritance, DNA structure, genes, chromosomes, variation, meiosis, mitosis, mutation, fruit fly, bioethics, medical genetics
Genetics concepts addressed: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
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| ISBN#: | 0783510055 |
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last updated 6/07/00