Monotremes vs Marsupials: A strange battle
While most mammals are placental, meaning they give birth to live young, these two infraclasses of mammals decided to do things a …
Mammal Mania: Primate Trivia
Intelligence can be measured in a variety of ways, and many highly intelligent mammals from a variety of mammalian orders come out …
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: Marathon Results
Congrats, Eyewirers! You finished the 596-cube marathon cell in 21 hours 16 minutes, along with 4 additional cells! With this, our events …
Team Gene: Nature wins!
Sure, nurture plays its part, but whether inherited from birth or activated via epigenetic markings, isn’t it truly all nature at play …
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 …