Cartoon Guide to Genetics

Have you ever asked yourself:Are spliced genes the same as mended LevisWatson and Crick Aren't they a team of British detectivesPlant sex Can they do thatIs Genetic Mutation the name of one of those heavy metal bandsAsparagine Which of the four food groups is that inThen 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!

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.