Sunday in that bleak pandemic summer of 2020, the air near central California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park felt muggy, almost tropical. Weird, thought naturalist Christian ...

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” So goes the famous dictum of Sherlock Holmes, echoed by paleobotanist C. Kevin Boyce in summarizing ...

DNA is the genetic code that provides the biological instructions for every living species, but not every bit of DNA helps the species survive. Some pieces of DNA are more like parasites, along for ...

UC Santa Cruz researchers discover that "introners," transposable elements, are responsible for spreading noncoding DNA ...

DNA is the genetic code that provides the biological instructions for every living species, but not every bit of DNA helps ...

Fungi have their own classification, with a unique kingdom that includes yeast, molds, and mushrooms. These eukaryotic organisms, which have cell nuclei enclosed by nuclear envelopes, are different ...

Learn to nurture the ancient, symbiotic relationship between mycorrhizal fungi and plants’ roots ... natural habitats primarily in terms of plants and animals, the two kingdoms of life we ...

In the grand tree of life, that’s a big claim. Eukaryotes — organisms with complex cells — include animals, plants, fungi, and protists. But this ancient tree-like giant, the researchers ...

Prototaxites, the mysterious ancient organisms, are changing our understanding of early Earth. Sporting a unique, tube-like structure, these organisms attained heights of 26 feet roughly 430 ...

without having a defined nucleus), protists (eukaryotic organisms that are most often single-celled organisms as well though not classified as animals, plants, fungi) and viruses. Soil virus ...

Eukaryotes are generally subdivided into four kingdoms: animals, plants, fungi, and protists (basically a catch-all category for all eukaryotes that aren’t animals, plants, or fungi).

In animal cells, vacuoles are generally small and help ... 5 While cell walls are less common in eukaryotes, they are still present in plants, fungi and some protists. These rigid structures provide ...