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The gene is AMY1, and it’s found in virtually every human population. It codes for amylase, an enzyme in saliva that begins ...

J. Craig Venter was a pioneer in the fields of human genomics and synthetic biology, pursuits that both put him in the ...

Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences team decodes 118 chromosomes of key cultivar POJ2878 to reveal sucrose storage ...

Researchers have created a new way to reconstruct the evolutionary history of complex plant genomes by analyzing genetic traces left by transposable elements. The technique revealed that modern ...

J. Craig Venter was a pioneer in the fields of human genomics and synthetic biology, pursuits that both put him in the spotlight and earned him the label of “controversial.” “Craig was a divisive ...

Social media is at it again, trying to strike fear into people about perfectly normal things being somehow incredibly ...

This video explains the stages of mitosis, contrasts them with meiosis and the creation of haploid gametes, and concludes by ...

David Bertioli and colleagues report the genomes of Arachis duranensis and Arachis ipaensis, the diploid ancestors of cultivated peanut, Arachis hypogaea. Their analyses are a first step in ...

This is known as reduction division. The four gametes produced in meiosis are genetically different. Independent assortment and the random nature of fertilisation lead to variation in living organisms ...

Genes are made of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), which contains sequences of four nucleotide bases (adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine) that act as biological instructions for making proteins.