(Encyclopedia) Sutherland, Earl Wilbur, 1915–1974, American pharmacologist and physiologist, b. Burlingame, Kans., M.D., Washington Univ. Medical School, 1942. He was a professor at Washington Univ…
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Genetic engineering: Gene-splicing techniques
genetic engineering, the use of various methods to manipulate the DNA (genetic material) of cells to change hereditary traits or…
publisherDied: January 3, 2008 (Scottsdale, Arizona) Best Known as: owner and editor of The New Republic Former publisher of the liberal political and…
actorBorn: 7/10/1926Birthplace: New York City Fred Gwynne is best known as the amiable Herman Munster in the television series The Munsters (1964–66). But the long-faced, deep-voiced actor's…
WHAT ARE BACTERIA AND VIRUSES? WHAT ARE GENETIC DISEASES? WHY DO SOME PEOPLE SUFFER FROM ALLERGIES? WHAT IS CANCER? MEDICINEFIND OUT MOREAnything that damages the body or how it works can be called…
(Encyclopedia) cline, in biology, any gradual change in a particular characteristic of a population of organisms from one end of the geographical range of the population to the other. Gradients of…
(Encyclopedia) Wexler, Nancy, 1945–, American geneticist and neuropsychologist, b. Washington, D.C., Ph.D. Univ. of Michigan, 1974. After her mother was diagnosed with Huntington's disease in 1968,…
