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Evolution
Evolution: the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.Evolutionary processes give rise to biodiversity at every level of biological organisation, including the levels of species, individual organisms, and molecules. Repeated formation of new species, change within species, and loss of species throughout the evolutionary history of life on Earth are demonstrated by shared sets of morphological and biochemical traits, including shared DNA sequences. These shared traits are more similar among species that share a more recent common ancestor, and can be used to reconstruct a biological "tree of life" based on evolutionary relationships, using both existing species and fossils.
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AUG 17, 2021Cell & Molecular Biology
The genome is more than just its sequence; epigenetic features of DNA, like chemical tags that may be attached, or how i ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 16, 2021Microbiology
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Antibiotic resistance is a growing threat to public health, and experts have been warning about it for so long, they've ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 17, 2021Plants & Animals
New research has found that temperature is the main driver behind an increased body size throughout human evolution.Written By: Brittany Kenyon-FlattJUL 13, 2021Microbiology
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Before plants could be easily grown to produce delicious foods that we're all familiar with, they had to be domesticated ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 11, 2021Cell & Molecular Biology
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This image by Dominik Göldner, BGAEU, shows the skull of a hunter gatherer that was recovered from a site in present-day ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 30, 2021Genetics & Genomics
The common, two-stranded helical structure of DNA was discovered over one hundred years ago. Many researchers would go o ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 28, 2021Earth & The Environment
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Parents pass down their genes to their offspring, and it seems that epigenetic features, which can affect gene activity ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
AUG 17, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
The genome is more than just its sequence; epigenetic features of DNA, like chemical tags that may be attached, or how i
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 16, 2021
Microbiology
Microbes have adapted to live virtually everywhere, including inside the guts of many animals and humans. But how do the
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 09, 2021
Plants & Animals
New research suggests that human nose shape is not only driven by cold climates, as previously thought
Written By:
Brittany Kenyon-Flatt
AUG 09, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Although the human genome has basically the same genes from one person to the next, there is a huge amount of variation
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 03, 2021
Plants & Animals
New research suggests stressful physical and social events leave permenant lines on your teeth.
Written By:
Brittany Kenyon-Flatt
AUG 03, 2021
Neuroscience
Neuroscientist, Donald Hoffman, thinks a mathematical model will solve the hard problem of consciousness
JUL 30, 2021
Plants & Animals
Paleontologists gain another piece of California's past
Written By:
Timothy James
JUL 28, 2021
Plants & Animals
Professor Elizabeth C. Turner of Laurentian University may have discovered the oldest animal fossil ever, as reported in
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 20, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
Antibiotics are a standard treatment for bacterial infections, but more and more of these bacterial infections can't be
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 18, 2021
Neuroscience
A brainless slime mold known as Physarum polycephalum uses its body to sense mechanical cues in its environment. Then, i
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
JUL 18, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Our environment is full of DNA molecules. While researchers have become concerned about DNA waste material that's ac
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 18, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Genetic tools have enabled scientists to assess the evolution of humans through DNA, and researchers have shown that mod
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 18, 2021
Microbiology
Antibiotic resistance is a growing threat to public health, and experts have been warning about it for so long, they've
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 17, 2021
Plants & Animals
New research has found that temperature is the main driver behind an increased body size throughout human evolution.
Written By:
Brittany Kenyon-Flatt
JUL 13, 2021
Microbiology
In nature, growing populations from bacterial colonies to humans tend to expand. In pulled expansions, the individuals a
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 13, 2021
Plants & Animals
Before plants could be easily grown to produce delicious foods that we're all familiar with, they had to be domesticated
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 11, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
It's been thought that songbirds are unable to taste sugar. Songbirds lack a protein that's crucial for many animals inc
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 08, 2021
Plants & Animals
This image by researcher Viktor Radermacher shows the Heterodontosaurus tucki & a digital reconstruction of the fossil w
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 04, 2021
Microbiology
Antibiotic resistant bacteria pose a potentially serious threat to public health. There are a variety of ways that peopl
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 01, 2021
Microbiology
This image by Dominik Göldner, BGAEU, shows the skull of a hunter gatherer that was recovered from a site in present-day
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 30, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
The common, two-stranded helical structure of DNA was discovered over one hundred years ago. Many researchers would go o
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 28, 2021
Earth & The Environment
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found a way to expand biofuel production with geneticall
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
JUN 18, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Archeological digs have told us a lot about human history, but genetic tools have been able to fill in some of the gaps
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 17, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Parents pass down their genes to their offspring, and it seems that epigenetic features, which can affect gene activity
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch