Sometimes it’s easy to tell if something is living or not. A teddy bear might look like a bear, but it cannot do any of the seven things it needs to be able to do to count as being alive.

The biological research of UC Santa Cruz’s Needhi Bhalla to determine the molecular motions at the heart of heredity has ...

The five phases of mitosis and cell division tightly coordinate the movements of hundreds of proteins. How did early biologists unravel this complex dance of chromosomes? The most obvious ...

Cell biology is the discipline of biological sciences that studies the structure, physiology, growth, reproduction and death of cells. Research in cell biology uses microscopic and molecular tools ...

Take the evolution of sex, for instance. To make the move from asexual to sexual reproduction, nature took a system by which parent cells reproduced simply by dividing (asexual reproduction ...

A centriole is a cylindrical structure within the cell that plays a part in cell reproduction. The activities within this cell are the same as in the mitosis-dividing cell. NOTE: Blue indicates ...

The fluids provide the sperm cells with nutrients ... A penis goes into the vagina during sexual reproduction. This is also where menstrual blood leaves the body and where a baby exits during ...