Get ready for a biology lesson. Certain plants have extra sets of chromosomes. And it turns out, it's a useful trait for a ...

Hybrid plants and animals have complicated genomes. A biologist has discovered a way to reveal their parent species. If you've ever kept a garden, you're probably familiar with hybrids, from ...

Unlike humans, many plants have more than two sets of chromosomes. This trait may help them adapt to environmental upheaval, such as climate change.

Polyploid cells (green, indicated with arrows) migrate into the surrounding tissue of a fruit fly larva. Researchers at Tulane University School of Medicine have discovered that if animal cells gain ...

Assistant Professor of Biology Vicki Losick admits she harbors a desire to change the world a little bit. “I want to make ‘polyploidy’ a household word,” Losick said in her Higgins Hall office, next ...