Derived from Ben Pierce’s popular and acclaimed Genetics: A Conceptual Approach, this streamlined text covers basic transmission, molecular, and population genetics in just 18 chapters, helping students uncover major concepts of genetics and make connections among those concepts as a way of gaining a richer understanding of the essentials of genetics. The new edition offers updated content and new features. It also now a fully integrated text/media resource, with a powerful yet easy-to-use student media and course management tools available in W. H. Freeman’s breakthrough online course space, LaunchPad. What's in the LaunchPad