Not exact matches
(insert your own, southerners backwoods joke here) So Mendel fails, in my mind, to adequately account for the very narrow
gene pool (read
single - celled organism) that the theory
of evolution begins with.
In this episode, Scientific American news editor Phil Yam discusses how veterinarians, physicians and multinational food companies need to work together in the global fight against animal - borne infectious diseases; and University
of Wisconsin evolutionary biologist Sean Carroll talks about recent research tracking the
evolution of yeast
genes with specific functions descended from a
single, duplicated
gene with multiple functions.
They found that during
evolution, a reshuffling
of DNA known as translocation brought together separate chunks
of sex - determining
genes onto a
single chromosome, essentially mimicking the human X or Y chromosome.
A
single gene may have helped the
evolution of our complex brains 2.
How important was a
single gene in the
evolution of human language?
Changes in the regulatory region
of a
single gene may have had a profound affect on human
evolution.
Around 2.5 million years ago, the erroneous duplication
of a
single gene changed the course
of our brains»
evolution forever.