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Discovering Life's Story: The Birth of Genetics
Can we crack the code to life itself? In the third volume in the Discovering Life's Story...
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Can we crack the code to life itself? In the third volume in the Discovering Life's Story series, scientists compete to decipher the genetic blueprint behind all life on earth. It's the dawn of the twentieth century. Darwin has theorized that traits get passed down through generations, and Mendel has come up with a mathematical formula that predicts how traits reappear over time. But a key mystery remains: is there a recipe for living beings? If there is, where is it hidden? With the help of powerful new microscopes and x-rays, scientists peer ever closer into cells, searching for answers. They find chromosomes, tight coils of DNA, mutations that introduce new variations in species, and proteins that dictate how living things function. Walter Sutton observes that chromosomes come in pairs. Nettie Stevens discovers the X and Y chromosomes that define biological gender. And Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, and Francis Crick compete to be the first to understand DNA's structure. But is it proteins or DNA that carry the secrets to life's blueprint?
In Birth of Genetics, Joy Hakim, author of the best-selling series A History of US, continues charting the path of human discovery as scientists race to unravel our genes and the mysteries they hold.
Author: Joy Hakim
Publisher: Miteen Press
Published: 02/03/2026
Pages: 196
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.10h x 7.60w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781536222951
Audience: Young Adult
Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 09/19/2025 pg. 1
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2025
About the Author
Joy Hakim is the best-selling author of A History of US, a ten-volume history of the United States that has sold over three million copies. She also wrote the much-lauded Story of Science series (Smithsonian) that includes Einstein Adds a New Dimension. The author of the first two books in the Discovering Life's Story series, Biology's Beginnings and Evolution of an Idea, Joy Hakim has worked as a teacher, newspaper writer, and editor and currently lives in Maryland.
In Birth of Genetics, Joy Hakim, author of the best-selling series A History of US, continues charting the path of human discovery as scientists race to unravel our genes and the mysteries they hold.
Author: Joy Hakim
Publisher: Miteen Press
Published: 02/03/2026
Pages: 196
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.10h x 7.60w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781536222951
Audience: Young Adult
Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 09/19/2025 pg. 1
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2025
About the Author
Joy Hakim is the best-selling author of A History of US, a ten-volume history of the United States that has sold over three million copies. She also wrote the much-lauded Story of Science series (Smithsonian) that includes Einstein Adds a New Dimension. The author of the first two books in the Discovering Life's Story series, Biology's Beginnings and Evolution of an Idea, Joy Hakim has worked as a teacher, newspaper writer, and editor and currently lives in Maryland.
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