Molecular Biology of the Gene, Books a la Carte Edition 7th Edition

I bought this book to assist me with my transition into the field of genomics research and molecular biology. I searched around for quite a while looking for a fairly deep and up-to-date books, and I think this book has more than fulfilled this purpose for me. I've been to Cold Springs Harbor Labs (this book is a CSHL Press publication). CSHL's history and place in this field of science is undisputed. Of the authors, I'm taking an online ed.s class from Professor Stephen Bell (MIT), and it is likewise excellent.What you should expect to find with this book is a text book format, with a quiz after each chapter, and the even questions have answers in the back. The book can easily be read front to back, but is also a very good reference book, with full index.I've found the book to be very accurate and up-to-date, at least to my level of knowledge. There are very few typographical errors. The figures are plentiful, presented in context, and provide a very good graphical representation of the text they accompany.I bought the loose leaf version so I could carry around just a few chapters as I read them. This book is nearly 900 pages.

This book is in acceptable condition. The pages are all in good condition and legible with a few water marks here and there. My only complaint is that the cover just isn't the prettiest where it hasn't been stored or cared for properly by other users.

Relatively low print in black & white, but good enough for an amazing price. Hard cover color version is very expensive, and I think this version is a great alternative for students with a low budget.

I didn't really like that it was full of big words. But I liked the small ones

For my Molecular Genetics Class the Hardcover book was so expensive at my school store and online, yet I only paid $16 for this, and I’ve used it to earn an A in the course! This helped me so much and is REALLY worth the money, I’m amazed I got it for that cheap!

Great! Giving it a 4 star though as the diagrams were in black and white. I had expected them to be in color just as the cover.

All in black and white. Hard to distinguish the images that required colours to see what they are. Also described as having an access code- which I did not get. Book is fine for studying though.

The book came with very, very slight structural damage that was noticed, such as bent portions of the cover (probably because of shipping wear), but overall this was great and way cheaper than the bookstore at my school.

This is a great textbook. It's very well written. I purchased this text to do some upper level molecular biology before moving on to my Master's degree in Biology. I already had Molecular Biology of the Cell ("big blue") and Essential of Cell Biology in my library, but found they were not detailed enough with regard to what (precisely) is going on throughout genetic expression. This also includes a great detail of structural and biochemical aspects that are not included in most general MB texts. There's a good integration of structural and chemical aspects, with an emphasis on demonstrating function through form (structure), almost like an anatomy and physiology book for molecules. It is fairly detail dense and all of the authors are at the top of the field and current. Included (Ch.7) is a thorough chapter on lab techniques. If that is your focus, Cold Sping Harbor Publications is best. They also have a journal for protocols. If you need more general cell and molecular biology (e.g. vesicle transport, membranes, etc), go with Molecular Bio. of the Cell (Alberts et al.). I wouldn't recommend Essentials of Cell Biology because it's still fairly expensive and doesn't really have anything that isn't included included in MBOC.The only advantage the Essentials would have is being smaller. I was also interested in Molecular Biology: Principles of Genome Function (Craig.N) at the time of purchase. It looked more like an intermediate level of textbook and I couldn't tell if it would have the same detail.

Es un clásico y aunque hay otros libros de biología molecular y celular con una visión más integral a nivel de funcionamiento celular, todos aquellos que quieran revisar los principios básicos de la genética molecular pueden disfrutar este texto

good people

Paper quality is so bad. Not very well printed. Some papers, I can barely read because there words are not enough clear.

good for all molecular biologist