Mutation
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In biology, a mutation is an alteration in the nucleic acid sequence of the genome of an organism, virus, or extrachromosomal DNA. Mutations result from errors during replication, mitosis, meiosis, or
A red tulip exhibiting a partially yellow petal due to a somatic mutation in a cell that formed that petal
A mutation has caused this moss rose plant to produce flowers of different colours. This is a somatic mutation that may also be passed on in the germline.
Genetics
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Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms. It is an important branch in biology because heredity is vital to organisms' evolution. Gregor Mendel, a Moravian Augustin
Portrait of Imre Festetics, the first geneticist and ethologist. His concepts of selection and evolution were later formulated in Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
Walther Flemming's 1882 diagram of eukaryotic cell division. Chromosomes are copied, condensed, and organized. Then, as the cell divides, chromosome copies separate into the daughter cells.
Siamese cats have a temperature-sensitive pigment-production mutation.