Curated category
Population genetics
- BiodiversityA forest in North Saskatchewan holds fungi, leaf lichens, and mosses that illustrate the concept of biodiversity. Biologists define this term as the total…
- Genetic driftImagine a jar holding twenty marbles. Ten are red and ten are blue, representing two versions of a single gene within a population of organisms.
- Hybrid (biology)A mule is a sterile hybrid of a male donkey and a female horse. This creature stands smaller than horses but stronger than donkeys, making it useful as pack…
- Haplogroup I-Z63The year 2600 BCE marks the estimated formation of Haplogroup I-Z63 according to genetic analysis by YFull. This calculation relies on volunteer samples from…