Cartoon guide to genetics

Informationen zum Autor Larry Gonick has been creating comics that explain history, science, math, and other big subjects for more than forty years. His books have sold millions of copies worldwide and have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. He has been a calculus instructor at Harvard (where he earned his BA and MA in mathematics), a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, and a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College. Klappentext 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! Zusammenfassung Presents the principles of genetics - classical and modern - in a cartoon format. Anecdotes about how the ancients tried to explain sex determination and inheritance abound, making the learning of the concepts of Mendel's Laws, mutations, DNA and gene splicing easier to understand.

Product details

• Authors: Gonick, L. Wheelis Gonick, Larry Gonick, Gonick Larry, Mark Wheelis
• Assisted by: Larry Gonick (Illustration)
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.1991
• EAN: 9780062730992
• ISBN: 978-0-06-273099-2
• Dimensions: 188 mm x 235 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Cartoon Guide Series; Cartoon Guide Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire > Comic; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Genetics, genetic engineering; SCIENCE: Life Sciences / Biology, SCIENCE: Chemistry / General, SCIENCE: Natural History, SCIENCE: Life Sciences / Cell Biology, GRAPHIC NOVELS: SCIENCE & MATH, SCIENCE: Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS: Reference, SCIENCE: GENETICS, SCIENCE: Study & Teaching, EDUCATION: Reference