Signs of Life: The Language and Meanings of DNA

Signs of Life: The Language and Meanings of DNA
ISBN-10
0395644984
ISBN-13
9780395644980
Series
Signs of Life
Category
DNA
Pages
224
Language
English
Published
1994
Author
Robert Pollack

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Displaying a rare gift for metaphor, Pollack draws on his 30 years of research and study to show how DNA provides a complete instruction book for all living things. "The most distinguished book about science I have seen so far this decade".--Horace Freeland Judson, Nature.

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