Introduction to Genetic Analysis

Twelfth Edition | ©2020 Anthony Griffiths; John Doebley; Catherine Peichel; David A. Wassarman

The new 12th edition of Introduction to Genetic Analysis takes this cornerstone textbook to the next level. The hallmark focuses on genetic analysis, quantitative problem solving, and experimentation continue in this new edition while incorporating robust updates to the

The new 12th edition of Introduction to Genetic Analysis takes this cornerstone textbook to the next level. The hallmark focuses on genetic analysis, quantitative problem solving, and experimentation continue in this new edition while incorporating robust updates to the science.

Introduction to Genetic Analysis is now supported in Achieve , Macmillan’s new online learning platform. Achieve is the culmination of years of development work put toward creating the most powerful online learning tool for biology students. It houses all of our renowned assessments, multimedia assets, e-books, and instructor resources in a powerful new platform.

Achieve supports educators and students throughout the full range of instruction, including
assets suitable for pre-class preparation, in-class active learning, and post-class study and
assessment. The pairing of a powerful new platform with outstanding content provides an unrivaled learning experience.

Access all your course tools in one place!

Take notes, add highlights, and download our mobile-friendly e-books.

Save money with our hole-punched, loose-leaf textbook.

Read and study old-school with our bound texts.

This package includes Achieve and Hardcover.

This package includes Achieve and Loose-Leaf.

Look Inside

The evolution of a classic

The new 12th edition of Introduction to Genetic Analysis takes this cornerstone textbook to the next level. The hallmark focuses on genetic analysis, quantitative problem solving, and experimentation continue in this new edition while incorporating robust updates to the science.

Introduction to Genetic Analysis is now supported in Achieve , Macmillan’s new online learning platform. Achieve is the culmination of years of development work put toward creating the most powerful online learning tool for biology students. It houses all of our renowned assessments, multimedia assets, e-books, and instructor resources in a powerful new platform.

Achieve supports educators and students throughout the full range of instruction, including
assets suitable for pre-class preparation, in-class active learning, and post-class study and
assessment. The pairing of a powerful new platform with outstanding content provides an unrivaled learning experience.

Introduction to Genetic Analysis is now supported in Achieve , Macmillan’s new online learning platform. Achieve is the culmination of years of development work put toward creating the most powerful online learning tool for biology students. It houses all of our renowned assessments, multimedia assets, e-books, and instructor resources in a powerful new platform.

Achieve supports educators and students throughout the full range of instruction, including
assets suitable for pre-class preparation, in-class active learning, and post-class study and
assessment. The pairing of a powerful new platform with outstanding content provides an unrivaled learning experience.

Achieve combines powerful automatically graded online homework with a convenient e-book and an extensive suite of engaging multimedia learning resources. Problems feature hints for when students get stuck, answer-specific feedback to help them learn from their mistakes, and solutions to reinforce what they’ve learned.
Achieve also includes tools to help students prepare for class and study for their exams. LearningCurve adaptive quizzing ties back to the e-book and is a great tool to help students learn basic concepts and do assigned readings before coming to lecture. Achieve also includes a wealth of multimedia and problem solving resources to help students make the most of their study time.

Introduction to Genetic Analysis continues to lead because of its rigorous problem sets and pedagogical support in the text. Highlights include:

• Working with the Figures are questions that prompt students to examine book figures and tease out important information, understand the intricacies of an experimental protocol, relate concepts, or draw a conclusion about what is shown.
• Unpacking the Problem (also available in Achieve) are step-by-step tutorials helping students approach a challenging problem. In the book, this is a list of questions shaped around “what do we know and what are we trying to find out”; in Achieve these are interactive tutorials that break the problems down into more approachable steps and build to the final answer.
• NEW Genetics and Society Questions at the end of each chapter asking students to consider the societal relevance of a topic in the chapter; good for initiating classroom discussion.
• Basic Problems are problem-solving or conceptual problems at varying levels for students to practice applying knowledge gained from the chapter.
• Challenging Problems are more complex questions, sometimes requiring the application of knowledge from multiple sections of the chapter, or thought questions that spur discussion

Learning Objectives tied to the chapter sections titles, Key Concepts, and EOC questions to help create a learning path for the student (learning path is found in the study guide)

Key concepts - short highlighted features that summarize and reinforce important points from the text. Many more than in 11e, about one per B-head, so that students can always zero in on the relevance of a section.

Model Organism boxes describe key features of a model organism, in particular how it is used to study a particular system, what types of experiments are done with it, or why it serves as a good model for the studies described in the main text.

Numbered boxes go into more depth on a topic described in the text, such as the mathematical derivation behind a population genetics equation or how to map a centromere using linear tetrads.

Solved problems - a few sample problems showing students how to approach and solve the types of questions found in the EOC