This book is part of a book series called Contemporary Lives .

This book has been graded for interest at 11-17 years.

This book was published 2014 by Essential Library .

STEPHANIE WATSON is an independent scholar who has written and contributed to numerous works, including World of Genetics and Science and Its Times . She is the author of The Urinary System , and coauthor of The Endocrine System , both in Greenwood's Human Body Systems series.