This new brief version of Benjamin Pierce's Genetics: A Conceptual Approach, Second Edition, responds to a growing trend of focusing the introductory course on transmission and population genetics and covering molecular genetics separately.�The book is comprised of following chapters an case studies from Pierce's complete text:1. Introduction to Genetics2. Chromosomes and Cellular Reproduction3. Basic Principles of Heredity4. Sex Determination and Sex-Linked Characteristics5. Extensions and Modifications of Basic Principles6. Pedigree Analysis and Applications����INTEGRATIVE CASE STUDY Phenylketonuria: Part I7. Linkage, Recombination, and Eukaryotic Gene Mapping8. Bacterial and Viral Genetic Systems9. Chromosome Variation���� INTEGRATIVE CASE STUDY Phenylketonuria: Part II22. Quantitative Genetics23. Population Genetics and Molecular Evolution������INTEGRATIVE CASE STUDY Phenylketonuria: Part III