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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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JAN 31, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
If you’ve ever taken a biology class, you have an understanding of what a gene is. You would be familiar with the
...
Written By:
Cassidy Reich
JAN 28, 2016
Earth & The Environment
The idea of living a sustainable lifestyle has become more popular in the last decade due to our growing population and
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JAN 19, 2016
Chemistry & Physics
The shiny skins of certain ribbonfish reflect light across a broad range of wavelengths, giving them a brilliant metalli
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
JAN 19, 2016
Microbiology
When I first learned about mitochondria and chloroplasts in school, there was little mention of their origin as bacteria
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
JAN 19, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
Amazonian Heliconius butterflies have a distinctive coloring, known as the “dennis red patch” and the &ldquo
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JAN 09, 2016
Health & Medicine
New research explains why we enjoy eating so much over the winter holidays and our New Year's weight-loss res
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
JAN 08, 2016
Immunology
Analysis of thousands of genes from the 1000 Genomes Project and genome sequences of ancient hominins has allowed scient
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JAN 06, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Scientists have observed behavior from a super massive black hole approximately 26 million light years away from a galax
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 06, 2016
Chemistry & Physics
Until recently astronomers thought only a small percentage of stars have strong magnetic fields, but a new way to probe
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
DEC 28, 2015
Earth & The Environment
It took 100 million years for oxygen levels in the oceans and atmosphere to increase to the level that allowed the explo
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
DEC 28, 2015
Videos
It's a strange thing to think about, because it's been a part of our lives for as long as we can remember, but can you i
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 21, 2015
Immunology
From Peter Parker’s fateful spider bite to Arthur pulling the sword from the stone at the beginning of his reign&m
...
Written By:
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
DEC 11, 2015
Cell & Molecular Biology
Helicobacter pylori are a group of gram negative bacteria from the Helicobacteraceae family that are often the cause of
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
DEC 06, 2015
Videos
The term "gene drives" refers to the ability of specific genes to "drive" themselves as well as nearby genes through pop
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
DEC 06, 2015
Videos
Ribosomes are located within all living cells and are responsible for the production of proteins. To do this they are ab
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
DEC 04, 2015
Immunology
In a novel study demonstrating the influence of the immune system on gut bacteria evolution, scientists from the Insitit
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 29, 2015
Cell & Molecular Biology
You probably first heard of the Tasmanian devil while watching the Looney Tunes cartoon portrayal as a child. According
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
NOV 28, 2015
Immunology
Bats may be able to defend against pathogens differently than other mammals because their immunological first line of de
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 19, 2015
Videos
There are a handful of animals out there that are thought to have been around during prehistoric times, and continue to
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 12, 2015
Videos
NASA's mission to explore the atmosphere and evolution of the climate on Mars reported some startling information this w
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
NOV 05, 2015
Space & Astronomy
The red planet in our solar system, Mars, is a lot like Earth in many ways, but the reason that it doesn’t appear
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 03, 2015
Microbiology
While paleontologist Dr. Susannah Porter from the University of California was examining her scanning electron microscop
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
OCT 23, 2015
Cell & Molecular Biology
According to Benjamin Franklin “Beer is the proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” I am sure man
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
OCT 08, 2015
Neuroscience
When the subject of early human species comes up, the focus tends to be on bones. Researchers want to know how big they
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim