Discovery of compounds that delay flowering could boost crop yields
In an era where climate change threatens food security, scientists worldwide are searching for reliable ways to improve crop ...
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Discovery of novel small compounds that delay flowering in plants
Climate change and unpredictable weather threaten global food security by disrupting agricultural cycles. Now, Japanese ...
Owner Unprepared for the Puppy Labrador Gives Birth To: 'Came as a Shock'
"Many questions went through my head about what I had previously learned concerning genetics," breeder Albert Bos told Newsweek.
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The Hardy-Weinberg Principle
The Hardy-Weinberg Theorem deals with Mendelian genetics in the context of populations ... Natural selection is not acting on the locus in question (i.e., there are no consistent differences ...
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Sweaty T-Shirts and Human Mate Choice:
The combination of two individuals' different MHC (major histocompatibility locus) genes gives their offspring an advantage in beating back disease organisms. So the mice could smell a genetic ...
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allele frequency
Alleles are variant forms of a gene that are located at the same position, or genetic locus, on a chromosome. An allele frequency is calculated by dividing the number of times the allele of ...