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“…Con este libro podrás conocer esta realidad a través de las biografías de los cinco sacerdotes científicos más sobresalientes de los siglos XVI al XX: Nicolás Copérnico, Nicolás Steno, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Gregor Mendel y Georges Lemaître…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Las ideas de ayer y de hoy; Gregor Mendel: el nacimiento de la genética; Las leyes de Mendel; La teoría de Sutton y los aportes de Morgan; Alelos múltiples…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…From abandonment to the idea of healing -- The Doctor-patient relationship -- The Hippocratic corpus -- The Discovery of microscopic life -- The Medical encounter and the history of the present illness -- Galenic medicine -- "On the fabric of the human body" by Andreas Vesalius -- The Physical examination -- To see for oneself at the autopsy -- "On the motion of the heart" by William Harvey -- Diagnostic x-ray examinations -- "Observations and experiments on the gastric juice and the physiology of digestion" by William Beaumont -- "Nervism" and the integration of the organ systems -- "Chemical messengers" and the discovery of hormones -- The Germ theory of disease -- Smallpox vaccination -- Aspirin -- The Initiation of insulin therapy -- Florence Nightingale and modern nursing -- The Development of sewage systems -- Public works and health -- Paul Ehrlich's "Magic Bullets" -- Eradication of smallpox by the World Health Organization -- Gregor Mendel's discovery of genetics -- Friedrich Miescher discovers DNA in pus -- Oswald Theodore Avery uncovers the function of DNA -- The Structure of DNA is elucidated by James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, and Rosalind Franklin -- The Genetic Code -- Tropical Medicine -- Microscopes -- The Fool of pest --…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Explorando el concepto de herencia en Gregor Mendel: (...)38. ¿Relaciones íntimas o matrimonios de conveniencia? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Lamarck y la lucha por la supervivencia / Miguel Palomo -- 23. Johann Gregor Mendel: sacerdote y científico / Francisco Rodríguez Valls -- 24. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…LOS ORÍGENES DE LA BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR; LA TRANSMISIÓN DE LA INFORMACIÓN (LA GENÉTICA); Los estratos y los fósiles; Charles Darwin; Gregor Mendel; La célula; El núcleo; Los cromosomas; LAS PROTEÍNAS Y LOS ENZIMAS; Las albúminas; Las proteínas; El enlace peptídico; Los fermentos; El vitalismo; Los premios Nobel; Los enzimas y su naturaleza proteica; La teoría coloidal de las proteínas; La cristalización del virus del mosaico del tabaco; LA FUNDACIÓN Y LAS TÉCNICAS; La Fundación Rockefeller…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Numerical chromosomal abnormalities -- Aneuploidy -- Types of Aneuploidy -- Aneuploidy in humans -- Polyploidy -- Chromosome mutations and cancer -- Review Questions -- Chapter 5: Classical Genetics: Mendelian Theory of Inheritance -- Principles of Genetics: Mendelian Principles -- Early life of Johann Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) -- Mendel's Experimental Organism: the Pea Plant -- Mendel's Experiment: Monohybrid and Dihybrid Crosses -- Monohybrid cross -- Mendel's conclusions from the monohybrid cross -- Dihybrid cross and the principle of independent assortment -- Review Questions -- Chapter 6: Patterns and Mechanisms of Inheritance in Humans -- Pedigree -- Patterns of Inheritance in Humans -- Autosomal dominant inheritance -- Autosomal recessive inheritance -- X-linked dominant inheritance -- X-linked recessive inheritance -- Y-linked inheritance -- Mitochondrial inheritance -- Multifactorial inheritance -- Review Questions -- Chapter 7: Multiple Alleles and Blood Groups -- The ABO Blood Group -- Function of IA, IB and i Alleles of the ABO Gene -- Other Genetic Systems that Exhibit Multiple Allelism -- Review Questions -- Chapter 8: Prenatal Nutrition -- Maternal Nutritional Status -- Nutritional supplementation during pregnancy -- Physiological changes during pregnancy -- Nutritional requirements during pregnancy -- Food Allergies -- Symptoms -- Some common food allergies -- Diagnostic test available for food allergies -- Review Questions -- Chapter 9: Conditions Affecting the Mother -- Infections During Pregnancy -- Bacterial infections -- Group B beta-hemolytic streptococci (GBS) -- Group A beta-hemolytic streptococcus -- (Streptococcus pyogenes) -- Listeria monocytogenes -- Haemophilus influenzae -- Escherichia coli -- Viral infections -- Rubella -- Cytomegalovirus -- Herpes simplex virus -- Effect of Drugs, Chemicals and Radiation…”