Other than a few new pictures and the book being mixed around the 8th edition is the same as the 9th edition and great to use and very helpful. I do recommend getting the solutions manual to ensure that you squeeze out all the info you can from the book and to get a lot of good practice!
Well as we all have to in college, I bought this book for a Molecular Genetics Course. I think the book does help in that it gives a basic explanation. It is a supplementary source to the instructors notes which are sometimes too specific and not generalized. It is good to know the background and the big picture for genetics.
It is actually a really good book with great pics and has wonderful little summaries after each section... not just each chapter! They have a lot of practice problems too! Make sure you also by the solutions manual too!
This book is very helpful with diagrams and full color pictures. What benefitted me the most in this class was the MEGA Solutions Manual for all the end of chapter questions.
I bought this for my class and it is very cheap compare to all the text we had in our book store..........I know that I made a great decision.
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