Mammal Mania: Carnivora Hunt
The Carnivora mammalian order takes it name from the latin carō ‘flesh’ and vorāre ‘to devour’, referring to animals that eat meat. Most of the animals …
Mammal Mania: Chiroptera Accuracy Happy Hours
Bats are so cool (and abundant) that they get their own animal order – Chiroptera! Bats are the only mammals capable of …
Eyewire Presents: Mammal Mania!
Perhaps you enjoyed Eyewire’s previous competition Reptile Pile, an ode to all creatures scaly and ectothermic. But now it’s time to bring …
Team Gene: Awards
Thanks for joining Team Gene and getting deep into the deoxyribonucleic acid with us! We can tell you climbed to the top rung …
Team Gene: Chromosomal Marathon
Chromosomes are long, threadlike structures made of a single molecule of DNA that contains all or part of an organism’s genetic material. …
Team Gene: Nature vs. Nurture, an Epigenetic Battle!
Epigenetics is a field of study focused on alterations in gene expression that do not involve changes on the underlying DNA sequence. …
Team Gene: Nucleotide Trivia
Nucleotides are the basic units of nucleic acids. They are monomeric units – molecules that react together with other monomeric molecules to …
Team Gene: Accuracy Punnett Hours
Gregor Mendel certainly deserved his title as the “father of modern genetics” for his botany studies of inherited traits. But his discoveries …
Eyewire presents: Team Gene!
Your genes make you you! Today we are all familiar with DNA, or Deoxyribonucleic acid, a polymer that carries the genetic instructions for …
Chemical Curiosities: Awards
Woohoo! Although the final bell has sounded, the memory of Eyewire’s Chemical Curiosities will live on through the achievements you earned today, …
Chemical Curiosities: Marathon Results!
How’s that for our first marathon of the year? This 761-cube marathon cell finished in 23 hours 29 minutes, along with 1 …
Chemical Curiosities: Victory to Team Base!
Wow! What a wild chemical reaction. Unlike most times when acids and bases meet, however, Eyewire hasn’t neutralized, but rather come out …