Cartoon Guide to Genetics (Cartoon Guide Series)

by Larry Gonick (Author), Larry Gonick (Author)

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Paperback
2000
$15.52

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!

Synopsis

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!

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Edition: New
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Published: 12 Oct 2000
ISBN 10: 0062730991
ISBN 13: 9780062730992

Media 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

Author Bio

Larry Gonick has been creating comics that explain math, history, science, and other big subjects for more than forty years. 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 currently staff cartoonist for Muse magazine. He lives in San Francisco, California.