A newly developed "plant tree of life" may help scientists crack an "abominable mystery" declared by Charles Darwin. Flowering plants first evolved over 140 million years ago. Their sudden ...

The Darwin Tree of Life project has an ambitious target of sequencing the DNA barcodes and full genomes of all 66,000+ described UK species. Our work is the UK’s contribution to the Earth Biogenome ...

This process entails the complete duplication of an organism’s DNA, resulting in four sets ... on our broader efforts in the Darwin Tree of Life project, which aims to sequence all species ...

Now, Rokas says, he thinks that DNA is not only moving around the tree of life, but it’s moving a lot more frequently than anyone had imagined, and the cases of HGT that have been identified are just ...

Students use both morphology and analysis of DNA sequences to identify relationships ... us understand how evolution has shaped life on Earth. Deep Tree: Students explore an interactive tree ...

To help you explore this tree and understand ... our version of the game of life. Start by building your own phylogenetic trees by analyzing the traits and DNA that characterize selected species.

Over half of our genomes consists of thousands of remnants of ancient viral DNA, known as transposable elements, which are widespread across the tree of life. Once dismissed as the "dark side" of ...