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The genome - animals

A clam washed ashore. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Freckled? Maybe you share a common chemical with oysters

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By using an innovative microscope, they were able to identify for the first time the process in which the seashell produces crystals used for vision, and discovered that it is similar to the process of the formation of freckles in humans
The DNA molecule. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Why is the "junk folder" in our DNA not deleted even after millions of years of evolution?

A new model offers an explanation for the huge variety of sizes of DNA in nature
A mammoth in the forest. From Jumpstory.com

Clone mammoths to protect the climate?

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The winner of the Wolf Prize for Agriculture, Prof. Gene Robinson, a few minutes after winning on the balcony of the Knesset. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

"With the help of the insight we received from decoding the genome of the bees, we will be able to fight the collapse of the beehives"

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Black-footed ferret. Source: USFWS Mountain-Prairie / flickr

Genetic resurrection

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Dolly the sheep. From Wikipedia

Research: Clones don't die young

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Prof. Trudy McKay, University of North Carolina. Winner of the 2016 Wolf Prize for Agriculture

The pioneer of the genetic architecture of complex traits, Prof. Trudy McKay from the USA won the Wolf Prize for Agriculture

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save the elephant

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A family of woolly mammoths in the snow, during the last ice age. Illustration: shutterstock

The complete genome map of the woolly mammoth - may provide an explanation for its extinction and help in its restoration

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A puppy of a pampered Scottish cat. Photo: shutterstock

The domestic cat genome is decoded; Reveals clues about the domestication process

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A whip-like parasitic worm. Illustration: shutterstock

A worm is harmful to pigs but helps humans overcome autoimmune diseases

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Scientists from the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh have helped crack the sheep's genetic code. The team was part of an international sheep genome research consortium that sequenced the complete genetic makeup of the Texel sheep, the same breed of sheep seen in the photo. Their findings reveal that the sheep became a separate species from the goats 4 million years ago. Photo: Kay Aitchison, Royal Veterinary School, University of Edinburgh.

The sheep genome is deciphered; Separated from the goat 4 million years ago

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wheat From Wikipedia

Winners of the Wolf Prize for Agriculture 2014: Returning genes lost from wild animals to domesticated animals and from wild plants to domesticated plants is essential for improving the food supply * The two are part of the nine winners who received the award from the President of the country

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Decoding the tsetse fly genome revealed its weaknesses

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X chromosome and Y chromosome. Image: shutterstock

The Y chromosome was first formed in the ancestors of mammals 180 million years ago

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A baby mammoth and its mother. Illustration: shutterstock

Forum - bring the extinct species back to life! / George Church

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Skull of a wild boar. Photo: Tel Aviv University

The wild pigs in Israel have a European genetic signature in contrast to the Mediterranean genetic signature of the pigs in the neighboring countries * imported by the Philistines

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Yeti - The terrible snowman as described by people who claimed to have seen the creature in the Himalayas. Illustration: shutterstock

The scary snowman? There is such an animal, but surprisingly it is close to polar bears and not to the Himalayan brown bear

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A duck in the rainforests of Australia. Photo: shutterstock

Mirror molecules / Sarah Everts

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Photo 51. From Wikipedia.

Decipher the book of life

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A grumpy and disappointed chimpanzee from Charles Darwin. From the book "Emotions in Humans and Animals (1872)

Scientists have reconstructed the evolutionary history of great apes in the last 15 million years

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A cock embryo's male genitalia (artificially dyed red) before it withers, as seen under a scanning electron microscope. Figure (AM Herrera and MJ Cohn, University of Florida)

Why did the birds lose their male genitalia?

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The stag mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus). Photo: John Good, National Park Service

Home and garden

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Deer mouse. From Wikipedia

One gene - many mutations: the gene that controls the color of the mice's fur has evolved nine times

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Ukhaatherium nessovi, a giant Cretaceous-age animal discovered in 1994 in Mongolia's Gobi Desert by the Mongolian Academy of Sciences and the American Museum of Natural History, is one of the many mammals used to study the placental mammal tree of life. When the tiny creature's remarkably well-preserved skeleton was discovered This time, the researchers were surprised to find the presence of epipubic bones, which were attached to both sides of the groin. Today this feature is only found in egg-laying mammals such as the duck and marsupial mammals such as the kangaroo. But their presence in this fossil showed that the first placental mammals also shared the same feature.

The oldest placental mammals, lived right after the end of the dinosaur period

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