Understanding the Inventions That Changed the World. Episode 33, Genetic Engineering.
Material type: FilmPublisher number: 6771420 | KanopyPublisher: The Great Courses, 2013Publisher: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019Description: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (26 minutes): digital, .flv file, soundContent type:- two-dimensional moving image
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W. Bernard Carlson
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2013.
This lecture tracks the story of genetics from Darwin and Mendel to Watson and Crick. Then turn to genetic engineering - the direct manipulation of an organism's hereditary information by introducing foreign DNA or synthetic genes. This technology - PCR - has important applications for today's agriculture, medicine, forensics, and more.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
In English