The Elephant Man, novelist Pearl S. Buck and Phoebus, god of the sun, all find their way into science writer Carl Zimmer’s latest book. In She Has Her Mother’s Laugh, Zimmer uses famous moments in ...

England’s King George III descended into mental chaos, or what at the time was called madness, in 1789. Physicians could not say whether he would recover or if a replacement should assume the throne.

Humans have a positive view of nature. But is this due to an approach we have learned while growing up, or is it something we are born with? The answer is 'Both', according to researchers. Humans have ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Family photos from Kaleucagys, Kekova, Turkey. Photo by Anton Watman, via Shutterstock. Have you ever taken a peek at your family tree? If you trace back along those branches, you might discover some ...

Heredity helps determine why some adults are persistently lonely, research co-authored by psychologists at the University of Chicago shows. Working with colleagues in The Netherlands, the scholars ...

Who founded genetics? The line-up usually numbers four. William Bateson and Wilhelm Johannsen coined the terms genetics and gene, respectively, at the turn of the twentieth century. In 1910, Thomas ...

The science of genetics is out of date and had better be revised or abandoned. Geneticists, fussing around for the last century with colored sweet peas and subnormal fruit flies, are out of touch with ...

Jerry A. Coyne is professor emeritus in the department of ecology and evolution at the University of Chicago. He is the author of “Speciation” (with H. Allen Orr), “Why Evolution Is True” and “Faith ...

Our concept of heredity is based on the idea that we inherit certain genes and traits from our parents and ancestors. But as science writer Carl Zimmer points out in his new book, it's not that simple ...

NCERT Solutions for Class 10 Heredity: NCERT books are written in the most efficient way with each topic explained in a well-structured format that helps to break the complex problems quite easily.

CBSE Class 10 Science MCQs on Chapter 9 - Heredity and Evolution are provided here. Correct answer with explanation is also provided for each question. All these questions are based on important ...