Van Gorp, Lynn

Offers a brief overview of the life and career of eighteenth-century French chemist Antoine Lavoisier.

Discusses the life and work of Gregor Mendel, an Austrian monk who studied heredity in plants and is considered the father of genetics.

Offers a brief overview of genetics, with information on dominant and recessive alleles, Punnett squares, DNA, the Human Genome Project, mutations, and cloning.

Discusses the ninety different elements that can be found in nature, which are organized on a chart known as the Periodic Table of Elements, and covers chemical symbols, formulas, compounds, and reactions, mixtures and solutions, and other aspects of chemistry.

Offers a brief overview of the elements, with information on the different types of elements, their structure, and function.

A biography on the life of Gregor Mendel, whose experiments with garden peas helped him explain how genetic traits in living things such as hair color and eye color in humans are passed from generation to generation.

This book examines landforms to learn how Earth has changed in the past and describes constructive forces and destructive forces that will change Earth in the future.