Genomics, gene editing, CRISPR, heritability, and beyond.
Mendel, Watson, Crick, and the long argument about what heredity actually is.
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Browse this topic →Inside every cell sits two metres of DNA coiled into a space six micrometres across. How the double helix works, why complementary base pairing matters, and how one molecule copies itself with extrao…
DNA stores the instructions but never leaves the nucleus. RNA carries the working copy. How transcription turns a gene into messenger RNA, …
Chromosomes are not merely storage — the way DNA is packaged controls which genes are active. Five levels of compaction from double helix t…
Before DNA was discovered, Gregor Mendel deduced the rules of inheritance from pea counts. What alleles are, why some are dominant and othe…
Sex is determined at fertilisation by a single genetic difference: whether the fertilising sperm carries an X or a Y. Every egg carries X —…