Table of Contents

Ecology, adaptation and evolution - early research at Cold Spring Harbor; the early applications of Mendel's genetics to human beings; the development of hybrid corn at Cold Spring Harbor; chromosomal changes and heredity; mouse headquarters, Cold Spring Harbor; unstable genes in Drosophila; quantitative biology comes to the biological laboratory - isolating hormones; the genetics of taste and smell; pigeons, hormones and lactation; quantitative biology - biophysics in the biological laboratory; broken chromosomes; penicillin - the department of genetics at war; the unstable genome - movable genes; dissecting the bacteriophage life cycle; the Hershey-Chase experiment; assembly line genes; first glimpses of DNA repair; DNA and the T2 phage chromosome; the sticky ends of phage lambda and their uses; DNA synthesis and the case of the missing enzyme.