The term genetics was coined at the beginning of the twentieth century to separate new forms of scientific inquiry from previous studies of generation, inheritance, or heredity. Classical genetics was originally part broad area of science known as...

All living things pass on traits from one generation to the next according to a systematic set of "blueprints." These blueprints are contained in the long, thread-like chromosomes that lie inside the cell nucleus of all living things. On these...

The process by which characteristics of living CELLS are passed on during replication. The basis of heritability is the genetic code, contained within the DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID (DNA) of all cells. Before cell division, DNA is duplicated and copies of...

The transmission of genetic characteristics from parent to...

Heredity (the adjective is hereditary) is the transfer of characteristics from parent to offspring through their genes, or the transfer of a title, style or social status through the social convention known as inheritance (for example, a Hereditary...

Some call it hereditary democracy.The mantle of democratic government in Greece has passed from father to son and from uncle to nephew as two rival political dynasties alternated power in the past half-century.In Sunday's election, Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis' conservative government will defend its parliamentary...

Dr. Arthur Kornberg, a biochemist who received the 1959 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for the test-tube synthesis of DNA, died of respiratory failure Friday at Stanford Hospital. He was 89.Kornberg, an active professor emeritus of biochemistry at Stanford University's School of Medicine, shared...

Dr. Arthur Kornberg, whose test-tube synthesis of DNA earned him the Nobel Prize in 1959, died of respiratory failure Friday at Stanford Hospital, the hospital said. He was 89.Kornberg, an active professor emeritus of biochemistry at Stanford University's School of Medicine, shared the Nobel Prize...

Dr. Arthur Kornberg, whose test-tube synthesis of DNA earned him the Nobel Prize in 1959, died of respiratory failure Friday at Stanford Hospital, the hospital said. He was 89.Kornberg, an active professor emeritus of biochemistry at Stanford University's School of Medicine, shared the Nobel Prize...