Discovery of a surprise multitasking gene helps explain how new functions and features evolve
- Written by Katherine L. Petrie, Assistant Teaching Professor, University of California San Diego
Watching bacteria and viruses duke it out, evolving to outwit each other.UC San Diego, CC BY-NDEvolutionary biologists likeus try to figure out how organisms – from Tyrannosaurus Rex to influenza – evolve. For more than 100 years, scientists have thought about evolution through a framework that combines Mendel’s understanding of...
