Gregor Mendel's principles of inheritance form the cornerstone of modern genetics. So just what are they? When looking at the figure, notice that for each F 1 plant, the self-fertilization ...

Gardening is the practice of growing and cultivating plants. Yet, how we cultivate flowers or veggies can be done differently ...

No doubt many of our readers have, while enjoying the delicate odor of a rose or a cape jasmine, wondered what it is that these and other plants possess which imparts such delicious perfumes.

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With our recent warmer temperatures, you might be noticing a few of your plants already peeking through the surface. But ...

Gregor Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments with pea plants, long before the discovery of DNA and genes. Mendel was an Augustinian monk at St Thomas’s Abbey ...

Scientists discovered that rose petals form their pointed tips by concentrating stress in small areas along the edges.

It must be remembered, however, that these plants are really demanding and require some specific care methods. If you do that ...

This publication establishes requirements applicable to the design of nuclear power plants and elaborates on the safety objective, safety principles and concepts that provide the basis for deriving ...