science

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 …

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 …

All competition events for Reptile Pile have finished, and it’s probably time to slither away for a post competition rest. We hope …

Turtles come from the order Testudines, and are recognizable by their shells, which developed from their ribs. A turtle’s shell is part …

It’s time for a reptilian head-to-head! We’re making friends with some lesser known reptiles in this month’s competition, so let’s get to …

There’s a lot to learn about lizards. In fact, this group of squamate reptiles, the largest order of reptiles, has over 7000 …