In humans and many other animals, specific chromosomes determine sex. But how did researchers discover these so-called sex chromosomes? The Sex of Offspring Is Determined by Particular Chromosomes ...

Biologically speaking, nearly every species on Earth has two opposite sexes, male and female. But with some fungi and other microbes, sex can be a lot more complicated. Some members of Cryptococcus, a ...

Researchers recently mapped the evolutionary turning point that transformed the pathogenic Cryptococcus fungus from an organism with thousands of sexes to only two. They found that during evolution, a ...

This figure demonstrates the organization process of a chromosome. Chromosome Droplets are formed during this process and act as a basic packaging unit of the chromosome. Their structures are ...

Comparative genomics is a field of biology where the genome of different species are compared to each other to understand evolutionary and molecular differences between species. The development of low ...