The genome structure—how genes are organized within DNA sequences in an organism—is fundamental to the processes and ...

So it is with ecology: Evolution provides a canon by which we may better understand the interactions of organisms with their environments. In this section, we define evolution as it is understood ...

Comb jellies "could repurpose [their] genetic toolkit in different ways like a Swiss knife," said the researchers.

But we can see similarities between organisms that live continents apart or are very different in other aspects. One reason for this is convergent evolution. Convergent evolution occurs when organisms ...

A research team has created a comprehensive evolutionary tree of all bird species, integrating data from hundreds of studies ...

Some stinky plants independently evolved an enzyme to take the same molecule behind our bad breath and turn it into the smell of rotting flesh.

Tuberculosis is the world's deadliest infectious disease, due in part to its ability to hide out for years in the lungs ...

The genome structure — how genes are organized within DNA sequences in an organism — is fundamental to the processes and ...

Misconceptions about human evolution have circulated since the 1920s. At Stony Brook University, researchers in the ...

The genome structure — how genes are organized within DNA sequences in an organism — is fundamental to the processes and functions of organisms. A ...

The genome structure — how genes are organized within DNA sequences in an organism — is fundamental to the processes and functions of organisms.

At a conference in Washington, D.C., in 2000, the secretoglobin super family of proteins was named to classify proteins with ...