Part Seven: Genes in the Mortar

The following sections are included:

• Epigenesis and Genetics—Conrad Hal Waddington

• A Recipe for Making Mice—Sydney Brenner

• The Wiring of a Worm’s Brain

• Recombinant DNA

• Striped Embryos—Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

• Our Worm Ancestors—Detlev Arendt

• The Age of Genomics—Eugene Koonin