"...an A-Z reference covering classical morphological and cytological terms as well as words and concepts from modern genetics and molecular biology." (SciTech Book News, Vol. 26, No. 2, June 2002)

"...an excellent volume...accessible to undergraduates, graduates, and researchers alike. Appropriate for the university level users, it successfully crosses disciplines in the fields of vertebrates, invertebrates, plants, evolutionary and molecular developmental biology, and medical embryology. There is nothing else quite like this available." (E-STREAMS, Vol. 5, No. 12, December 2002)