An accepted theory that chromosomes are the material of inheritance, and that they are associated in paternal-maternal pairings; dervied from the collective work of Boveri, Sutton, and Morgan.

Nonetheless, Mendel and Darwin's work laid the foundation for formulating a testable, research-based theory of heredity. Thus, Flemming recognized that chromosomal movement during mitosis offered ...

This video segment from NOVA: "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial" reveals how genetic evidence helped to confirm an important component of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection ...

X chromosomes are expressed differently depending ... are inherited from the mother or the father. The imprinted brain theory developed by Christopher Badcock and Bernard Crespi hypothesizes ...

The study titled "Chromosome-scale genome dynamics reveal signatures of independent haplotype ... Without sex, however, ...

Each cell with a nucleus contains chromosomes, which are made from DNA Human body cells each contain 23 pairs of chromosomes, half of which are from each parent. So, human gametes (eggs and sperm ...

When scientists today work to decode the human genome, they use high-tech methods to view the microscopic chromosomes and ... heredity left a big gap in his theory of natural selection.

Female mammals typically carry two X chromosomes — one from each parent — and a new study suggests that the maternal X is ...

The nucleus of each human body cell contains 46 chromosomes. Each chromosome contains about 1000 genes. There is enough DNA in all the cells in a human body to stretch to the sun and back again ...

The team also wants to investigate what these findings might mean for males, who carry only maternal X chromosomes — and could, in theory, then have greater rates of brain aging. "One can ...

Neanderthals, the closest cousins of modern humans, lived in parts of Europe and Asia until their extinction some 30,000 ...