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Biology

Montgomery Library's Guide to Resources in Biology

BIO 110 Biology

Booklist for Essays

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Attenborough, David The trials of life QL 751.A77 1990
Blumberg, Mark S. Body heat: Temperature and life on earth

QP 135.B584 2002

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Booss, John; Landry, Marie Louise;  August, Marilyn J.

To Catch a Virus (Check with Dr. Scott)

QR 201.V55 B66 2023

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Carroll, Sean B. Into the jungle: Great adventures in the search for evolution QH 361.C27 2009
Collins, Francis The language of life: DNA and the revolution in personalized medicine RB 155.65.C65 2011
Cook-Deegen, Robert The gene wars: Science, politics, and the human genome QH 445.2 .C66 1994
Crick, Francis What mad pursuit: A personal view of scientific discovery QH 31.C85 A3 1988
Davies, Kevin Cracking the genome: Inside the race to unlock human DNA QH 445.2.D37 2002
Dixon, Bernard Power unseen: How microbes rule the world QR 56.D594 1994
Erzinclioglu, Zakaria Maggots, murder, and men: Memories and reflections of a forensic entomologist RA 1063.45 .E796 2002
Fenster, Julie M. Mavericks, miracles, and medicine: The pioneers who risked their lives to bring medicine into the modern age R 134.5.F46 2005
Gross, Michael Life on the edge: Amazing creatures thriving in extreme environments QH 546.G7613
Harris, Henry The birth of the cell QH 577.H37 2000
Jahren, Hope Lab girl QH 31.J344 A3 2016
Marks, Jonathan What it means to be 98% chimpanzee: Apes, people, and their genes

GN 280.7 .M37 2003

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McCarty, Maclyn The transforming principle: Discovering that genes are made of DNA QH 448.4.M33 1986
Oldstone, Michael Viruses, plagues, and history: Past, present, and future

RC 114.5.O37 2020

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Pollack, Robert Signs of life: The language and meaning of DNA QH 437.P65 1994
Postgate, John The outer reaches of life QR 100.9.P67
Preston, Richard The hot zone: The terrifying true story of the origins of the Ebola virus RC 140.5.P74 2019
Ridley, Matt Genome: The autobiography of a species in 23 chapters QH 431.R475 2006
Ryan, Frank Virus-X: Tracking the new killer plagues: Out of the present and into the future RA 643.R93 1997
Sherman, Irwin Twelve diseases that changed our world: Diseases that changed our world and the lessons they teach

RA 649.S44 2007

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Taylor, Michael Ray Dark life: Martian nanobacteria, rock-eating cave bugs, and other extreme organisms of inner earth and outer space QR 437.P65 1994
Thomas, Lewis The fragile species R 708.T48 1992
Thomas, Lewis The lives of a cell: Notes of a biology watcher QH 331.T45 1974
Thomas, Lewis The medusa and the snail: More notes of a biology watcher QH 311.T56 1979
Wakeford, Tom Liaisons of life: From hornworts to hippos; how the unassuming microbe has driven evolution

QH 548.W25 2001

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Waller, John The discovery of the germ: Twenty years that transformed the way we think about disease

RB 153.W34 2002

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Weissmann, Gerald Epigenetics in the age of Twitter: Pop culture and modern science

QH 450.W45 2012

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Weissman, Gerald The year of the genome: A diary of the biological revolution R 852.W45 2002
Wright, Richard T. Biology through the eyes of faith BS 651.W84 1989