Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-191) and index.
Contents:
DNA. Immortal coil ; A world in your wardrobe ; The molecular narcissist ; 'Who's Your Daddy?' ; The case of the unusual cat ; Stranger visions; Advertising your genes -- Personal genomics. Science rock star genomes ; 'Six billion base pairs for six billion people' ; A scant 30,000 genomes ; Genomics 101 ; Genomics Goliath; Blindsided -- Homo evolutis. BabySeq ; Devil's Ark ; De-extinction ; Synthia ; Embryo genomics ; Genomematch.com ; Humanity rebooted -- Zoo in my sequencer. Elvis lives ; Genomic GOLD ; Does size matter? ; Don't call it junk ; The first tweenome ; Denisovan girl ; Single-celled sisters ; Microbial Earth; Losing the Acropolis -- No organism is an island. The biodiversity within ; Ratios matter ; Eating for trillions ; Microbes on the brink ; Genomic donations ; 2 per cent of pandas ; The last prairie -- Terra-genoming. The lingering kiss ; Reunion ; Unicorns ; Invaders ; Genes on the move ; A dead sea comes to life ; Shock and awe -- We are all ecosystems now. Quantified Self ; Roller derby ; A buoy in the ocean ; Cottonwood, cod, and corals ; The Moorea Biocode ; GEMs -- Biocoding the Earth. The Biocode ; Our place in nature ; Sunjammer ; You too can biocode ; The Planetary Genome Project.
Summary:
"The living world runs on genomic software-- what Dawn Field and Neil Davies call the 'biocode'- -the sum of all DNA on Earth. In Biocode, they tell the story of a new age of scientific discovery: the growing global effort to read and map the biocode, and what that might mean for the future."-- Publisher's web site.
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