About the Author

Katherine Cullen, Ph.D., received her doctorate in molecular biology from Vanderbilt University. She has taught science for Kaplan Educational Services and has also trained teachers. In 2002 she initiated and coordinated a training program to introduce undergraduate science majors to the field of biomedical research. Cullen acted as abridgement editor for four Schaum's Easy Outlines: Biology, Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, and Beginning Chemistry. Scott McCutcheon holds a B.S. in physics from Boise State University. He is currently a physical scientist for the Division of Public Health in Juneau, Alaska. Bobbi McCutcheon is a published fiction and nonfiction writer. She is the coauthor of The Facts On File Marine Science Handbook with Scott McCutcheon.

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..."[a] concise, informative introduction."