Edwin H. McConkey is an American

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. , he is a

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at the department for Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at the

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. His contributions to

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include the original description the northern subspecies of

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, ''Plestiodon egregius similis''.

Education

*Bachelor of Science from the

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in 1949. *Master of Science from the University of Florida in 1951.

Bibliography

*(1976) ''Protein Synthesis: a Series of Advances'' . *(1993) ''Human Genetics: The Molecular Revolution (The Jones and Bartlett Series in Biology)'' . *(2004) ''How the Human Genome Works'' .

External links

Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at Coloradocontact details
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