Provides a humorous introduction to the fundamental principles of genetics, including inheritance, mutation, DNA, and gene splicing.
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Summary
Provides a humorous introduction to the fundamental principles of genetics, including inheritance, mutation, DNA, and gene splicing.
Description
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!
Critic Reviews
"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
About the Author
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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