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THE AUTHOR Jeffrey Tomkins is the Director of Life Sciences at the Institute for Creation Research (ICR). He has a Ph.D. in Genetics from Clemson University, an M.S. in Plant Science from the University of Idaho, and a B.S. inAgriculture Ed. fromWashington State University. He was a faculty member in Genetics and Biochemistry at Clemson University for a decade, publishing 57 secular research papers and seven book chapters. Dr. Tomkins specializes in genomics and has published 27 peer-reviewed creation science journal papers, two books, and a wide variety of semi-technical articles in the ICR magazine Acts & Facts . Tomkins ◀ Interstitial telomeres and chromosome 2 fusion ▶ 2018 ICC 228