Genetics is the study of how living things receive common traits from previous generations. These traits are described by the genetic information carried by a molecule called DNA. The instructions for ...

The Saint Louis University Biology Department offers courses with hands-on learning opportunities from cellular structures to fish, birds, reptiles and mammals. Content below is provided by SLU ...

When James Morris started teaching biology at Harvard in 2000, he was dismayed by the textbooks that were available. Though there were exceptions, they tended to be dull, full of facts students were ...

Fisher's (1918) classic paper on the inheritance of complex traits not only founded the field of quantitative genetics, but also coined the term variance and introduced the powerful statistical method ...

THE increasing number of publications of recent years which deal with the subject of inheritance is testimony to the keen interest in the laws and principles of this science. Our knowledge of it ...