What are genetic traits

Although the longstanding debate between nature versus nurture is often framed as one being dominant over the other, scientists today know it’s not that simple: Nature and nurture interact in complex ...

Although it may seem implausible, humans and octopuses do share genetic traits. Scientists discovered that a type of 'jumping gene' associated with learning and memory can be seen in both.

The recent demonstration of the considerable plasticity of the human genome might help to explain phenotypic discrepancies in the penetrance of genetic traits and/or in the severity of the ...

In comparing the gene expression patterns of 26 species with diverse lifespans, University of Rochester biologists found that the characteristics of the different genes were controlled by ...

Dynamic traits vary considerably among individuals. Similarly, the patterns of genetic control that they are under vary over a given time course. Figure 1 illustrates four representative patterns ...