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Jamal Okafor Page 5

On the editorial team at Biology Insights, Jamal Okafor works as a senior writer covering the life sciences. He taught high school biology for six years before reporting on science and community news for a local paper. Now based in Juneau, Alaska, Okafor focuses on foundational biology topics, using his teaching background to explain how living systems function.

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