DNA carries the blueprint of life. Heredity, mutations, natural selection, evolution and the genetic technologies shaping modern medicine.
The double helix that carries your instruction manual.
How DNA is organised and what genes actually do.
Why children resemble parents — but aren't identical.
Changes to DNA — sometimes harmful, sometimes the engine of evolution.
Survival of the fittest — but it's more subtle than that.
Multiple independent lines of evidence all point the same way.
A scientific theory — the most supported explanation we have.
How evolution produced the variety of life — and how we classify it.
Reading and editing the code of life.
Powerful tools — but who decides how they're used?
Humans have been directing evolution for thousands of years.
Apply genetics and evolution to a real-world problem.