Genetics

DNA, genes, and heredity — the molecular code passed down through generations.

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Human Body & Mind Genetics

About 8% of your DNA comes from ancient viruses

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Human Body & Mind Genetics

CRISPR gene editing was borrowed from bacteria

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Human Body & Mind Genetics

DNA's double helix was revealed in 1953

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Human Body & Mind Genetics

Everyone alive today shares one female ancestor from Africa

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Human Body & Mind Genetics

Identical twins don't have identical fingerprints

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Human Body & Mind Genetics

You inherit your mitochondrial DNA only from your mother

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Human Body & Mind Genetics

Your genome is 3 billion letters but only ~20,000 genes

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Human Body & Mind Genetics

Any two people share 99.9% of their DNA

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◆ On this day

On this day in Genetics

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28 Feb 1953

Human Body & Mind Genetics

Watson and Crick crack the DNA double helix

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26 Jun 2000

Human Body & Mind Genetics

Scientists unveiled the first working draft of the human genome

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5 Jul 1996

Human Body & Mind Genetics

Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell, was born

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