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Mammal Mania: Awards

Mammal Mania has come to a close. Thanks to all who participated, let’s take one more look at all you’ve achieved! Here’s to another …

Intelligence can be measured in a variety of ways, and many highly intelligent mammals from a variety of mammalian orders come out …

Bats are so cool (and abundant) that they get their own animal order – Chiroptera! Bats are the only mammals capable of …

Perhaps you enjoyed Eyewire’s previous competition Reptile Pile, an ode to all creatures scaly and ectothermic. But now it’s time to bring …

Thanks for joining Team Gene and getting deep into the deoxyribonucleic acid with us! We can tell you climbed to the top rung …

Congrats, Eyewirers! You finished the 596-cube marathon cell in 21 hours 16 minutes, along with 4 additional cells! With this, our events …

Sure, nurture plays its part, but whether inherited from birth or activated via epigenetic markings, isn’t it truly all nature at play …

Chromosomes are long, threadlike structures made of a single molecule of DNA that contains all or part of an organism’s genetic material. …

Epigenetics is a field of study focused on alterations in gene expression that do not involve changes on the underlying DNA sequence. …

Nucleotides are the basic units of nucleic acids. They are monomeric units – molecules that react together with other monomeric molecules to …

Gregor Mendel certainly deserved his title as the “father of modern genetics” for his botany studies of inherited traits. But his discoveries …

Your genes make you you! Today we are all familiar with DNA, or Deoxyribonucleic acid, a polymer that carries the genetic instructions for …