Christie is a seasoned science journalist and cell and molecular biology PhD; her debut book Venomous: How Earth’s Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry, received widespread acclaim. She was a ...

The founder effect is an extreme example of "genetic drift." Genes occurring at a certain frequency in the larger population will occur at a different frequency -- more or less often -- in a ...

Half of the possible offspring have the same allele combination; AA homozygous dominant and the other half have the Aa heterozygous combination. Probability close probabilityThe extent to which ...

The only problem was that he was nearly two years into the project and had little to show for it, as he was struggling to find homologs of the neochrome gene or pieces of it ... that seemed ...