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    The following resources include material we think teachers / lecturers and students might find informative, enjoyable or even inspirational. There is no expectation that students should be required to read from this list. If you would like us to add titles to the list, please contact the SNAB team with your suggestions.

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    SNAB AS Reading list

    Topic 2: Genes and health


    The following resources include material we think teachers/lecturers and students might find informative, enjoyable or even inspirational. The list is not definitive nor exhaustive and there is no expectation that students should be required to read from this list. Students may find the list useful as a guide for their wider reading, whilst teachers/lecturers may be provided with useful background information. If you would like us to add titles to the list, please contact the SNAB team with your suggestions.

    Deford F. (1998) Alex: the life of a child. Nashville, Tennessee: Rutledge Hill Press. ISBN: 1558535527. Alexandra Deford was a cystic fibrosis sufferer who died in 1980 at the age of eight. Her father, a sports writer, wrote this book as a way of helping himself and others come to terms with the disease and its effect on sufferers and their families. Since Alexandra died, huge strides have been made in CF research and the prognosis for sufferers is now vastly improved. This edition of the book includes an introduction summarising these developments, as well as the original story of a little girl living her life to the full despite her illness.

    Ferry G. (1998) Dorothy Hodgkin: a life. London: Granta. ISBN: 186207285X. Dorothy Hodgkin was a crystallographer like Rosalind Franklin, but her longevity and prodigious output meant her work on penicillin, DNA, vitamin B12 and solving the structure of insulin (for which she received the Nobel prize) was more widely recognized during her lifetime. This is a very readable biography of a truly remarkable scientist who combined research with motherhood and politics and remains Britains only female Nobel Laureate.

    Gonick L. and Wheelis M. (1991) The cartoon guide to genetics. London: HarperCollins ISBN: 0662730991. First published in 1983 and updated in the light of further research, this is a brilliant and very amusing introduction to inheritance, DNA, protein synthesis and genetic engineering. From our ancestors belief in spontaneous generation through Gregor Mendel and his pea plants, to the classic studies of Hershey and Chase, this book also provides an historical precursor to the discovery of the double helix. It has an excellent section on protein synthesis and provides a super cartoon explanation of lac gene induction, which would also help enormously in Topic 3.

    Maddox B. (2002) Rosalind Franklin: the dark lady of DNA. London: HarperCollins. ISBN: 0006552110. A biography of the crystallographer who took the key x-ray photographs of DNA but whose role in the discovery was overlooked. Ideally Maddox book should be read together with James Watsons The double helix (see page 2) to gain different perspectives on one of the most significant breakthroughs in biological science: the discovery in 1953 of the double helical structure of DNA. Watson and Crick were one of the greatest scientific partnerships in post-war Britain, but Watsons account gives scant credit to Rosalind Franklin, who took the x-ray diffraction photographs from which the structure was deduced. Franklin was undoubtedly a rather prickly character, and she had a strained

    Salters-Nuffield Advanced Biology, Pearson Education Ltd 2008. University of York Science Education Group. This sheet may have been altered from the original.

    SNAB AS Reading list


    Topic 2: Genes and health
    working relationship with her immediate boss, Maurice Wilkins. Watson, Crick and Wilkins collected the Nobel Prize in 1962 for their parts in the discovery, but Franklin had died four years earlier from ovarian cancer, at the tragically early age of 37.

    The Reith lectures on the BBC website. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith/ The Reith lectures were started in 1948 by Sir John (later Lord Reith), the first director general of the BBC. They were part of the Corporations mission to educate as well as entertain, and every year notable individuals from different fields give a series of lectures on topical and relevant themes, which are broadcast once a week for about 5 weeks in the Spring. The archive section goes back to 1997 and these lectures can be downloaded and listened to if you have a programme like Real Player. Several of the lecture themes are relevant to SNAB topics.

    Unilver booklet (1997) Proteins. London: Unilver. With a foreword by Dr Ashok Ganguly, this is another booklet in the Unilever series aimed at post-16 students and their teachers.
    Note: Unilever Educational Booklets are no longer available. We have still included this booklet in the list as it is a useful resource and many centres will already have copies.

    Watson J. (2004) DNA: the secret of life. London: Arrow. ISBN: 0099451840. First published in 2003 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA, Watson reminisces and considers the implications of the new biology that he and his co-workers helped to found.

    Watson J. D. (1999) The double helix. London: Penguin Books. ISBN: 0140268774. James Watsons personal account of his role in solving the structure of DNA. First published in the 1950s not long after the discovery, this edition has an introduction by Steve Jones, Professor of genetics at University College London.

    Salters-Nuffield Advanced Biology, Pearson Education Ltd 2008. University of York Science Education Group. This sheet may have been altered from the original.

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