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How do new traits emerge? NAU researcher working to answer one of evolutionary biology’s most challenging questions

Posted by Heather Tate on July 11, 2019

Liza Holeski in the NAU Greenhouse holding a yellow monkey flower Evolutionary biologists have long puzzled over how new traits emerge in nature, largely because much of the evolutionary information available is from the distant past. To learn more about how genes influence evolution, these researchers study organism phenotypes—the observable characteristics of an organism that are influenced by genetics and environment—and… Read more

Filed Under: College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences Tagged With: biologist, ecology, environment, evolution, genes, genetics, genomes, monkeyflower, National Institutes of Health, phenotypes, trait

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