本书保持了前八版的编写特色：注重基础知识，概念清晰准确，探讨解决专业问题，师生易学易教。第九版内容拓展到基因组、生物信息、蛋白质组及相关前沿领域。该书在亚马逊专业教材销售排行榜长期名列前茅，被许多北美、欧洲高校教学选用。
第九版内容主要包括：遗传学概况，有丝分裂和减数分裂，孟德尔遗传学，孟德尔比率，真核生物染色体图谱，细菌和噬菌体的遗传分析，性别决定和性染色体，染色体突变：染色体数量和分布，核外遗传，dna结构与分析，dna复制与重组，染色体dna的组织，重组dna技术和基因克隆，遗传密码和转录，翻译，基因突变和dna修复，原核生物基因表达，真核生物基因表达调控，模式生物的发育遗传学，癌症和细胞周期调控，基因组学，蛋白质组学，生物信息学，基因组动力学：转座子，免疫遗传学，真核病毒，基因组分析——基因功能，基因工程的应用及生物伦理剖析，数量遗传学和多因子性状，行为遗传学，群体遗传学，进化遗传学，保护遗传学。
本书适合生命科学相关专业教学选用，也可供从业人员参考使用。
目录
part one genes,chromosomes,andheredity
1 introduction to genetics 1
2 mitosis and meiosis18
3 mendelian genetics42
4 extensions of mendelian genetics70
5 chromosome mapping in eukaryotes 105
6 genetic analysis and mapping in bacteria andbacteriophages143
7 sex determination and sex chromosomes 173
8 chromosome mutations: variation in chromosome number andarrangement198
9 extranuclear inheritance227
part two dna: structure replication, and variation
10 dna structure and analysis245
11 dna replication and recombination278
12 dna organization in chromosomes302
13 recombinant dna technology and gene cloning322
part three gene expression,regulationand development
14 the genetic code and transcription352
15 translation and proteins381
16 gene mutation and dna repair410
17 regulation of gene expression in prokaryotes435
18 regulation of gene expression in eukaryotes457
19 developmental genetics of model organisms484
20 cancer and regulation of the cell cycle511
part four genomics
21 genomics, bioinformatics, and proteomics531
22 genome dynamics: transposons, immunogenetics, and eukaryoticviruses574
23 genomic analysis——dissection of gene function605
24 applications and ethics of genetic engineering andbiotechnology633
part five genetics of organisms and population
25 quantitative genetics and multifactorial traits668
26 genetics and behavior688
27 population genetics710
28 evolutionary genetics737
29 conservation genetics 762
appendix a glossarya-1
appendix b answers to selected problemsa-18
appendix c selected readingsa-57
creditsc-1
index i-1
