The Stuff of Life: A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA (2009)

The clearest one-volume tour of genetics in comics. Bloort 183, a scientist from an asexual alien race threatened by disease, has to brief his slow-on-the-uptake leader on how human DNA and evolution work, and that silly frame is exactly what makes it teach well: every explanation is pitched at someone hearing it for the first time. Mark Schultz writes, and Zander and Kevin Cannon draw cells and chromosomes so you can actually follow them, from the first breeding of crops and animals to modern genetics. It was written as a high-school-level introduction, so readers with no biology since school can keep up; the payoff is a genuine grasp of how heredity works.