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Mating
Mating is a biological process used by organisms for sexual reproduction. Mating occurs in all organisms, including animals, plants, fungi, and bacteria. Mating may require contact between opposite sex individuals, as with animals, but can also occur without any physical contact, as with pollination of vascular plants. Mating also encompasses the process occurring in bacteria and viruses in which homologous chromosomes of individuals are paired for genetic exchange resulting in the formation of a recombinant progeny.
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FEB 02, 2022
Plants & Animals
Did you know that fish can talk? Well, sort of, anyway. To be more specific, some fish make sounds that, according
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
JAN 04, 2022
Health & Medicine
Ever heard of the matching hypothesis? It's where people who look alike tend to pair off into couples. Well, now sci
...
Written By:
Alexandria Bass
DEC 31, 2021
Earth & The Environment
Light pollution is a newly recognized source of pollution with many complexities. What is light pollution to one person
...
Written By:
Samantha Lott
NOV 29, 2021
Health & Medicine
A new study published in Science Advances proposes hexadecenal as the first pheromone scientifically linked to aggr
...
Written By:
Hannah Daniel
NOV 23, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Some animals can produce offspring from an unfertilized egg in an asexual reproduction process known as parthogenesis. W
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 09, 2021
Plants & Animals
Some people change careers, and it seems that the Harpegnathos saltator ant can do the same; worker ants can switch to q
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 30, 2021
Health & Medicine
The ability to detect odors is important to most organisms' survival; they have to be able to find food or mates, fo
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 19, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
Parents pass their genes on to their children. But they can pass down other things too with epigenetic marks, chemical t
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 10, 2021
Plants & Animals
It's not unusual for people in workplaces and at home to have different temperature preferences. There may be biological
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 30, 2021
Clinical & Molecular DX
Schematic illustration of the adhesive patch with diving beetle–inspired suction chambers against rough and wet hu
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
SEP 17, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Ancient families that lived together were unlikely to have mated with one another, new research has suggested. Scientist
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 23, 2021
Plants & Animals
Saccopteryx bilineata is known as a communicative member of the sac-winged bat family. These animals use elaborate vocal
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 21, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Over the past year and a half, may people have been isolated and have spent far more time alone than usual. For some, th
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 21, 2021
Earth & The Environment
The third Saturday in August, this year the 21st, is National Honeybee Day! The date celebrates honeybee keepers and all
...
Written By:
Samantha Lott
AUG 17, 2021
Plants & Animals
A new study sequenced Neandertal DNA, revealing the first father-daughter pair and other clues about social life.
Written By:
Brittany Kenyon-Flatt
AUG 05, 2021
Neuroscience
Mice are both aware of random dopamine signaling in their brains and can willfully control it, according to new research
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
AUG 03, 2021
Plants & Animals
New research suggests stressful physical and social events leave permenant lines on your teeth.
Written By:
Brittany Kenyon-Flatt
JUL 29, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Some gene variants might be protecting people from the negative health effects of obesity.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 14, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Nature is in decline; the planet has lost a tremendous amount of biodiversity over the past few years due to human actio
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 26, 2021
Plants & Animals
By knocking out a gene in male mosquitos' testes, researchers demonstrate a powerful population control technique.
Written By:
Anne Medina
MAY 13, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
There are many islands that have unique flora and fauna, like these limbless creatures (Photo © Andrew Stanbridge) of Sã
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 10, 2021
Health & Medicine
To better define what romantic love is exactly, social scientists reviewed the literature in the context of biologist Ti
...
Written By:
Alexandria Bass
MAR 26, 2021
Plants & Animals
The east coast is preparing for one of nature’s greatest spectacles. A gigantic swarm of periodical cicadas is due
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
MAR 12, 2021
Cancer
New research reported in the February issue of the journal Toxicological Sciences suggests that brominated flame re
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan