'Covering both natural and anthropogenic environmental influences and touching on pertinent features of the molecular and biochemical systems of both prokaryotes and eukaryotes, are some of the books unique strengths. - EcoToxicology Undergraduates will find this very useful for any course on molecular genetics, while most sixth form-libraries would find it of great value for their top students to dip into, let alone to support their teachers in researching current material - The Biologist Genes and the Environment is concerned with genes and how their structures and activities can be influenced by current relevant environmental adversities. The book aims to provide a brief, integrated coverage at a biochemical and molecular biological level of the various effects that environmental factors can have on our genes, and those of other organisms, together with the likely consequences.

1. Introduction: Genes and the Impact of the Environment Part One: Gene Damage: Its Limitation, Repair and Consequences 2. Environmental Factors that Damage DNA 3. Spontaneous Alterations to DNA 4. Possible Oxidative DNA Damage from Cellular Free Radicals 5. Detoxification and Antioxidant Defenses 6. DNA Repair Mechanisms 7. Genetic Information Flow 8. DNA Damage, Mutation, Cancer and Ageing, Part Two: Environmental Stress: Genomic Responses 9. Gene Activation and Environmental Stress