Cartoon Guide to Genetics
$34.39
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
8 November 1996
Summary
Have you ever asked yourself: Are spliced genes the same as mended Levis? Watson and Crick Aren’t they a team of British detectives? Plant sex Can they do that? Is Genetic Mutation the name of one of those heavy metal bands? Asparagine Which of the four food groups is that in?
Then you need The Cartoon Guide to Genetics to explain the important concepts of classical and modern genetics—it’s not only educational, it’s funny too!
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780062730992 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0062730991 |
| Author: | Larry Gonick |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Imprint: | Collins Reference |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 8 November 1996 |
| Weight: | 306g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 187mm x 235mm |
| Series: | Cartoon Guide Series |
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Critics Review
“If you can’t learn Mendelian genetics from this text, I guess you never will.”– “New Scientist”It puts textbooks to shame.“– Matthew Meselson, Professor of Biology, Harvard Univercity
Larry Gonick
Larry Gonick has been creating comics that explain history, science, and other big subjects for more than forty years. He wrote his first guide, Blood from a Stone: A Cartoon Guide to Tax Reform, in 1977. He has been a calculus instructor at Harvard (where he earned his BA and MA in mathematics) and a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, and he is staff cartoonist for Muse magazine.
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