Category: Genetics in a nutshell
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Human traits. Are they arriving on time?
By Marta Koblańska, January 29, 16:55, Photo: public domain Pixabay Is it possible to catch differences in human genome visible and invisible expression? Modern technologies enable so. And what’s more they can trace our past to millions of years back. Natural selection which is an ongoing process of passing traits from one generation to the…
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The key for domestication. Humans’ capability or plant’s domesticability?
Oryginal date of publishing January 15/2025, By Marta Koblańska, Photo: Pixabay Just 15 edible plants provide us 90 percent of calories while a few hundred have been finally domesticated of the thousands of them. Why? The answer might be eligibility for domestication or humans’ limited ability. As state scientists, University of Southampton, UK in the…
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Global warming is changing our DNA. But it may be an advantage
Photo: Pete Linforth Evolutionary response to climate change accelerated in the past 20 years. But, as Spanish scientists claim, the fact may help in adaptation to ongoing transformation. Global warming becomes a new reality which impacts life on Earth. Now no one is questioning the ecological changes it brings and more and more often they…