Genetics: From Genes to Genomes, 5th edition 5th Edition

Pros:- page quality is good-- same as every hard-cover textbooks.- Large texts so it's very easy to read, especially if you have to cram 2-3 chapters over 1 night.- Pictures & diagrams are life-savers. They're probably the best thing about this book. You can easily understand concepts by looking at them for just a few seconds.- book is pretty thin- my professor literally follows the book, so if I miss a lecture or space out during class, I can just read the book and be perfectly fine for testsCons:- Sometimes it gets a bit wordy. I feel like they could've worded it better for cleaner, more precised explanations (of course, after I understood the concept)

A brand new book that is as advertised. It was almost a shame to scuff up the shiny cover. The book touches on the early history of genetics, and it has most of the basic information you would need to gain a better understanding of the field. This book is a bit advanced for people that are just curious about the field. If you are seriously considering this career path, then this is well worth owning. However, as with any textbook, I feel that you would get much more from this book if it were used with a University course.

Although I'm hating this class right now because of the lack of teaching skills from my instructor this book is easy to understand and puts it all together nicely! First college book that deserved my money lol

The text was pretty good. There were times where the language was confusing but overall it was good.The only thing is that if your professor is making you buy the online homework system affiliated with this textbook, I recommend just purchasing the paper copy online. It's less than twenty dollars and you can put the chapters in your binder as you need to. And you can write all over it.I rented the textbook from Amazon. Delivery was fast and return was easy.

This was a great book that covered almost everything I was looking for. The edition I read (5TH edition) did not include anything about CRISPER, but the latter is now easily found on YouTube.

The book was overly complicated for an introductory genetics course. I had a hard time teasing out the information that my prof actually wanted me to know. The book would be good for a more advanced class but there were too many details for an intro class. The 5th edition actually edited out some information that we were expected to know (for example, the araBAD operon and the myc/max system. Myc/max was referred to in the questions at the end of the chapter, but the information section within the chapter had been deleted). Three-quarters of the way thru the course our prof ended up sending us all a PDF of the 4th edition so we could get the info we needed. I should have just gotten the 4th edition in the first place.

Book that was necessary for class. Wasn't the most interesting read, sometimes it got confusing, but hey that's genetics.

Renting was so cheap and it was exactly what I needed. I had no issues receiving and returning the book.