Populations live in rapidly changing environments – droughts come and go, food sources change, human activities reshape habitats. For scientists, this raises a fundamental puzzle: How do populations ...

When we talk about genes being dominant or recessive, we’re generally talking about traits controlled by the amount of a certain protein produced. Science communicator Joe Hanson helpfully describes ...

This is a shout out to the biologists out there: do you think the concept of dominance and recessive is worthwhile? In other words, does it help in conceptualization more than it hurts? Clearly the ...

Genes come in pairs – ­one coming from your ­father and one from your mother – and can be ­described as being either dominant or recessive. A dominant gene is said to be “strong” and will always have ...

1. Dominant and recessive whites in the Mendelian sense, have no relation to the presence of Speigler's "white melanin." 2. The "white melanin" was found to be present in all forms of keratin ...

In one of the most classic scenes in "The Princess Bride," the sword fighter Inigo Montoya, played by Mandy Patinkin, monologues to the Dread Pirate Roberts (Cary Elwes) about why he is so devoted to ...