What are genes? What do genes do? These seemingly simple questions are in fact challenging to answer accurately. As a result, there are widespread misunderstandings and over-simplistic answers, which ...

Stern, Florian Kampourakis, Kostas and Müller, Andreas 2023. “Genes for a role,” “genes as essences”: Secondary students' explicit and implicit intuitions about genetic essentialism and teleology.

Genes are the blueprints of life. Genes control everything from hair color to blood sugar by telling cells which proteins to make, how much, when, and where. Genes exist in most cells. Inside a ...

How is genetic information inherited? - OCR 21st Century Our genes are inherited from our parents, and the different combinations of these genes make us unique. Genetic inheritance controls the ...

What are ways species exchange genes with each other? Hybridization and gene flow are shortcuts to biodiversity that don’t always involve differentiation. By continuing to study hybridizing ...

Professor Daniel Davis and his wife Katie’s experience is documented in The Compatibility Gene, published by Penguin, which discusses how our crucial compatibility genes may influence finding a life ...

A new study says Neanderthals and humans likely mixed and mingled during a narrow time frame 45,000 years ago.

Transposable elements, or "jumping genes", were first identified by Barbara McClintock more than 50 years ago. Why are transposons so common in eukaryotes, and exactly what do they do? In addition ...