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The Making of a Trait

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/31671/title/The-Making-of-a-Trait/ Populations of organisms acquire beneficial traits repeatedly and rapidly through co-evolution with other species and through gene interaction.

Genetics and the tree of life

http://harrietelliottuncg.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/genetics-and-the-tree-of-life/ We traditionally think about the tree of life in terms of Kingdoms: plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, etc. Genetics has really revolutionized the way we think about the tree of life and, because our classifications should reflect ancestry (that is, who is more closely related to whom), it has actually called into question a lot of our traditional classifications. Most biologists split up life into three domains: Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya (the last of which includes animals, plants, fungi, etc.).

Molecular Evidence for Evolutionary Relationships

In this activity, students learn about the evolutionary relationship between humans and other organisms, such as yeast. They compare the amino acid sequences in cytochrome-c for a variety of organisms and use this information to infer evolutionary relationships. They also learn about the role of homeobox genes in controlling animal body plans and what this indicates about the evolution of animals. 1. Show the video The Common Genetic Code and discuss the following: What happened when researcher Paul Nurse added human DNA to mutant yeast cells? http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/tdc02.sci.life.gen.lp_cytoc/

stand up for REAL science

http://www.anevolvingcreation.net/standup/home.htm Critical analysis is at the heart of the scientific process. Scientists have been critically analyzing evolutionary theory for nearly 150 years. As it stands, the vast majority of scientists worldwide accept evolution as a "vital, well-supported, unifying principle of the biological sciences."
A couple of days ago I fell off the wagon. I had been trying so hard to quit arguing with Creationists on the Internet, but I just couldn’t resist the temptation. Don’t get me wrong, it can be fun at times. http://www.anevolvingcreation.net/standup/

stand up for REAL science

Barcelona, Spain. Scientists have discovered that each gene identifies which proteins encoded by the gene are expressed in a particular tissue at a given moment. This is a new understanding of the way a body develops more specialized or elaborate body plans. The NOVA1 gene encodes a neuron -specific, RNA-binding protein (Nova-1). Already important in the http://ts-si.org/biology/29600

Gene Regulation and Evolution of Vertebrate Brains

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_molecular_evolution

History of molecular evolution

The history of molecular evolution starts in the early 20th century with "comparative biochemistry", but the field of molecular evolution came into its own in the 1960s and 1970s, following the rise of molecular biology . The advent of protein sequencing allowed molecular biologists to create phylogenies based on sequence comparison, and to use the differences between homologous sequences as a molecular clock to estimate the time since the last common ancestor. In the late 1960s, the neutral theory of molecular evolution provided a theoretical basis for the molecular clock, though both the clock and the neutral theory were controversial, since most evolutionary biologists held strongly to panselectionism , with natural selection as the only important cause of evolutionary change.