There are many ways you can inherit traits from your parents, says Sabato. First is through a dominant gene—if you inherit a ...

There are many ways you can inherit traits from your parents, says Sabato. First is through a dominant gene—if you inherit a ...

Through his breeding experiments with pea plants, Mendel established three principles of inheritance that described the transmission of genetic traits before genes were even discovered.

Imagine your doctor calls you to discuss the results of your genetic testing. They tell you your results indicate you are ...

Exploration may thus create a self-reinforcing loop, amplifying and spreading the genes and traits that drive it. There is another self-reinforcing dynamic operating in exploration—an ongoing ...

As with other psychological characteristics, personality traits are influenced by one’s genes as well as other factors—and not necessarily the ones we think. What leads to differences in ...

Five-Factor Theory: Personality Is Based on Biology Using the Big Five traits (or five-factor model ... of personality are influenced by one’s genes and that other, non-genetic developmental ...

Before species go extinct, their populations often shrink and become isolated. Healthy populations tend to have a large gene ...

Colorectal cancer typically is diagnosed after age 50, but in recent years the disease has been increasingly found in younger people and ...

Carlen and Kreling's new study provides examples of life history traits that may be under selection in urban coyotes as well as a list of candidate genes that have the potential to be implicated ...

Visualizing cells after editing specific genes can help scientists learn new details about the function of those genes. But ...