Genetics is important to our understanding of selection for at least three reasons: first, although the concept of selection seems obvious, it was not until selection was linked to Mendelian genetics ...

In Mendelian inheritance patterns, you receive one version of a gene, called an allele, from each parent. These alleles can be dominant or recessive. Non-Mendelian genetics don’t completely follow ...

Our genes are inherited from our parents, and the different combinations of these genes make us unique. Genetic inheritance controls the characteristics of all living things. This short video explains ...

The COVID-19 pandemic gave us tremendous perspective on how wildly symptoms and outcomes can vary between patients experiencing the same infection. How can two people infected by the same pathogen ...

Gene drive — the ability to shortcut genetic inheritance by propelling a gene throughout a population — has been demonstrated in principle for the first time in mammals. UC San Diego scientists ...