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If I were looking for a reference book focused on genetics in order to look up terminology, what would be the canonical text?

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Feel free to roll back the edit if necessary, but this makes the question a bit more constructive. – jonsca May 29 '12 at 21:54
I think its difficult to say because there have been several significant shifts in genetics in the past 300 years, with terminology carried over with each shift, from taxonomy, to Mendelian genetics, animal breeding, microbiology, molecular biology, and now statistical genetics from sequencing. There are texts for each one of these, but I'm guessing no single or short list of references for all of these. – shigeta May 30 '12 at 16:25

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