The Making of a Fly: The Genetics of Animal Design

this book is way above my knowledge but i like it. anyway. did some stuff with this book and made a fly teleport-er. now i can't stop talking like Jeff Goldblum.

I love it the best book I ever bought!

you need knowledge of genetics to enjoy it, tried to follow the stages of development but it is almost just a laboratory note book

The general reader interested in not only how a single fly egg cell develops into a complex, formed fly, but how genetic and molecular biological experiments are used to determine such mechanisms, will find this book useful. The maternal systems that establish positional information in the egg cell, followed by the development of parasegments, and followed by expression of groups of cells, are described. It is shown that a large amount of genetic information is required to simply organize the embryo, besides building it. Many of the genes discussed have homologues in other higher animals such as vertebrates.

For the uninitiated such as I, it has been entirely mysterious how a strand of DNA manages to express itself as a finished animal. Indeed, I really do believe evolution works, and that the information that describes an individual animal is passed on through the coding of DNA. But it has been uncomfortable accepting this principle on faith because authorities in the field say so. Here is a book that describes the process and explains how scientists detect and measure the mechanism. To all my fellow skeptics, I highly recommend this book.

This is a wonderful summary of that which we have learned from genetic knock-out and knock-in technology. There is a systemic evaluation of even the earliest cell divisions and the results are clear: knock-out or knock-in a gene, and the patterns change. Even axial organization of the egg can be influenced by knocking out a gene.The focus is entirely on making sense of the drosophila with knock-out and knock-in experiments . Fundamental research into initiating metabolic activity, surface chemistry and protein assembly is not addressed.

Everyone at the Gilded Lilly Country Club (especially Blain and Buffy, grrr) thought that it was funny that I bought this book with my very last 23 million, but I myself will have the last laugh! Amongst the pressed flies (thoughtfully included by the author in the appendix section), I found a 40 million dollar bill! Who will be laughing when I deposit it at the bank tomorrow!Cha-Ching!

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