Archive for the ‘Reproduction and heredity’ Category

  • Genome Project: What Have We Learned?

    It’s gibberish to us, but what does the Human Genome Project mean for biology?


    Thursday, February 21st, 2002
  • Diamonds, Chocolate, Mating

    Diamonds, mating and chocolate: three necessities of Valentine’s Day.


    Thursday, February 7th, 2002
  • Evolution Evidence from Fish

    Mechanisms of evolution uncovered with stickleback fish research.


    Thursday, January 3rd, 2002
  • Genes and Behavior

    Single gene determines number of queens in fire ant nest.


    Wednesday, November 21st, 2001
  • Evolution Everywhere

    Evolution is going on all around us. Evolution and everyday life.


    Thursday, September 6th, 2001
  • Sex Among Snails: Love Darts!

    Natural love: Hermaphroditic snails dart each other during sex. Just before mating, hydraulic pressure builds around the dart. When the second animal touches the darter’s genitals, it shoots.


    Thursday, July 12th, 2001
  • Botanical Beauty, Nasal Nightmare

    Amorphophallus titanum, the corpse flower, astounds thousands as it blooms. Even the flies agree: It STINKS! But what good is a foul-scented wonder?


    Thursday, June 14th, 2001
  • Bacteria: Not in Your Genes?

    New report says we don’t get genes directly from bacteria.


    Thursday, May 17th, 2001
  • Galapagos: The Evolution Islands

    Are the Galapagos islands the birthplace of evolution theory and evolution science? What did Darwin learn there, and how are they being preserved nowadays?


    Thursday, January 11th, 2001
  • Sex-Swapping Salmon

    Genetically male fish in the Columbia River look and act like females.


    Friday, January 5th, 2001


Cool Science Images

Image courtesy of Pete Mouginis-Mark, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Virtual Science!

©2010 University of Wisconsin
Board of Regents