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The Top 7 Books About Genetics
1. Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters – Matt Ridley 2. The Gene: An Intimate History – Siddhartha Mukherjee 3. Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome Biology – Venki Ramakrishnan 4. The Selfish Gene– Richard Dawkins 5.
- Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters – Matt Ridley
- The Gene: An Intimate History – Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome Biology – Venki Ramakrishnan
- The Selfish Gene– Richard Dawkins
- DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution – James D. Watson, Andrew Berry, Kevin Davies
- The Epigenetics Revolution – Nessa Carey
- Of Molecules and Men – Francis Crick
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