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Anatomy and
Physiology: Blood Types and Genetics

Blood Types and GeneticsAnatomy and PhysiologyThe Circulatory SystemCells, Bells!Blood Types and GeneticsNow I Know My WBCs Crash Cart Not all of genetics is so simple. Although some traits (…

Dawkins, Richard

(Encyclopedia) Dawkins, Richard (Clinton Richard Dawkins), 1941– British evolutionary biologist and ethologist, b. Kenya, Ph.D. Oxford, 1966. He was a research assistant under Nikolaas Tinbergen at…

DK Human Body: Reproduction

WHERE DO SEX CELLS FORM? HOW DOES AN EMBRYO FORM? WHERE DOES THE EMBRYO DEVELOP? HEREDITYFIND OUT MORENew life is created by reproduction. The mother and father produce sex cells, which join to…

Radio and Television Personalities

Ed Sullivan See also People in the NewsRecent Obituaries Related Links The Emmy® Awards International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Awards Alfred I. duPont —…

Fire, Andrew Zachary

(Encyclopedia) Fire, Andrew Zachary, 1959–, American geneticist, b. Palo Alto, Calif., Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983. After a long association with the Carnegie Institution of…

Capecchi, Mario Renato

(Encyclopedia) Capecchi, Mario Renato, 1937–, American geneticist, b. Verona, Italy, Ph.D. Harvard, 1967. On the faculty at Harvard from 1967 to 1973, Capecchi became a professor at the Univ. of Utah…

Genetic Engineering: Human Genome Project

Human Genome ProjectGenetic EngineeringIntroductionFundamentals of Genetic EngineeringCurrent Recombinant Cloning TechnologyDNA Technology ApplicationsHuman Disorders and Gene TherapyHuman Genome…

Microevolution and Macroevolution: Microevolution

MicroevolutionMicroevolution and MacroevolutionIntroductionMicroevolutionSpeciationMacroevolution Microevolution is the change in the genome, or gene pool, for a given species in a relatively short…

DK Science & Technology: Genetic Engineering

WHAT IS GENETIC VARIATION? HOW CAN WE MANIPULATE GENES? GM FOODCLONESSTEM CELLSFIND OUT MOREGenetic engineering is the manipulation of genes of living things. Scientists can now insert genes from…

mutation

(Encyclopedia) mutation, in biology, a sudden, random change in a gene, or unit of hereditary material, that can alter an inheritable characteristic. Most mutations are not beneficial, since any…