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48 pp.
| Creative/Smart Apple |
October, 2003 |
LibraryISBN 1-58340-350-7$$27.10
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4-621st Century Science series.
Attempting to explain genetics research and then present some of the resulting ethical issues, this book accurately introduces chromosomes, DNA, meiosis, gene splicing, cloning, medical applications, and the like. But some of the text is dense, perhaps necessarily for the short-paragraph format. Photos and diagrams colorfully supplement the text. Glos., ind.