The Biologist Is In

If you've been following me here for a bit, you've probably noticed I'm interested in plant breeding (especially garden veggies...

Male sterile plants are an incredibly important piece of classical biotechnology. (To be clear, they're not the result of "genetic...

I've been growing onions in my garden for a couple years. Like most of my garden veggies, they're not exactly the typical sort. A f...

Figure from [link] . Most birds have much better color vision than mammals. In general, they have four distinct types of color-sensing ...

The figure at left shows the metaphase chromosomes of a pepper root-tip, in all their squiggly false-color glory. In it you can count the...

The other day I found myself thinking about what would be the fundamental biological characteristics of a species having a system which de...

The surface conditions of Mars are, to put it politely, somewhat extreme. The air pressure, temperature, and chemical conditions at the sur...