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DK Nature: Cells

ARE THERE DIFFERENT TYPES OF CELLS IN THE SAME ORGANISM? HOW DO PLANT AND ANIMAL CELLS DIFFER? GENESFIND OUT MOREThe tiniest living unit that exists is a cell. Cells are the building blocks of all…

DK Science: Genetically Modified Crops

MOVING GENESCARRIERS OF GENESIMPROVING SHELF LIFEFIND OUT MOREPlant crops provide us with food, clothing, and many other important products. Farmers select seeds from the best plants to grow…

Rosbash, Michael Morris

(Encyclopedia) Rosbash, Michael Morris, 1944–, American geneticist, b. Kansas City, Mo., Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1970. Rosbash has been a professor at Brandeis Univ. since 1974,…

Why do I have brown eyes?

Why do I have brown eyes? The genes we inherit from our parents determine things like height, looks, hair color, eye color and chemical makeup. This passing of characteristics from parent to child…

biotechnology

(Encyclopedia) biotechnology, the use of biological processes, as through the exploitation and manipulation of living organisms or biological systems, in the development or manufacture of a product…

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…

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…