'Stuff Of Life' A Comic Take On Genetics

Excerpted from The Stuff Of Life, text by Mark Schultz, illustrated by Zander Cannon and Kevin Cannon. Published by Hill & Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Excerpted from The Stuff Of Life, text by Mark Schultz, illustrated by Zander Cannon and Kevin Cannon. Published by Hill & Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
BANG! POW! PHOSPHORYLATION!
The Stuff of Life is a new genetic biology primer with a twist — it takes the form of a graphic novel. Author Mark Schultz explains how, with the help of artists Zander Cannon and Kevin Cannon, he turned everything from cytokinesis to parthenogenesis into comics.
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