Resonance     journal of science education

October 1996 Volume 1  Number 10
Editorial 
N. Mukunda
Science Smiles
R K Laxman
  SERIES ARTICLES
06 What Can the Answer be? Reciprocal Basis and Dual Vectors
V Balakrishnan
14 Know Your Chromosomes The Paths to Disorder Are Many
Vani Brahmachari
26 Error Correcting Codes How Numbers Protect Themselves
Priti Shankar
37 Learning Organic Chemistry Through Natural Products Architectural Designs in Molecular Constructions
N R Krishnaswamy
  GENERAL ARTICLES
Fourier Series The Mathematics of Periodic Phenomena
S Thangavelu
56 Barbara McClintock and the Discovery of Jumping Genes
Vidyanand Nanjundiah
  FEATURE ARTICLES
63 What's New in Computers Database Mining
J R Haritsa
76 CLASSROOM
  Quantum Theory of the Doppler Effect
G S Ranganath
  Microbiology as if Bird Watching
Milind G Watve
82 THINK IT OVER
  Counting Molecules in a Spoonful of Water
J Chandrasekhar
84 RESEARCH NEWS
How to Move in a Jostling Crowd The Art of Harnessing Random Motions
G S Ranganath
87
 BOOK REVIEWS
Harmonic Analysis Fourier Series and Beyond
 K R Parthasarathy
Basic Biotechnology
S Vijaya


Acknowledgements


Front Cover
Maize cobs displaying variegated Kernel phenotype. Variations are due to transposable elements. Photographs kindly provided by B M Prasanna of Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi.

 

Back Cover
Barbara McClintock (1902-1992)
(illustration by Prema)

 

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