The discipline of classification and taxonomy involves the grouping of organisms into categories based on different properties including size, shape and gene sequences. Classification can help to ...

There are millions of different types of living things on Earth. In order to keep track of them all, scientists put living things into groups based on characteristics that they have that are the same.

Activity 1 – Frog or toad? Activity 2 – Classify the animals Activity 3 – Classification keys quiz Activity 4 – Create a classification key Classification helps scientists to put living things into ...

Genetic engineering is the act of modifying the genetic makeup of an organism. Modifications can be generated by methods such as gene targeting, nuclear transplantation, transfection of synthetic ...

Authorities have issued a warning after a potentially lethal sea creature washed up on a beach in Wales. Several Portuguese Man O’ War have been spotted on Aberavon beach near Port Talbot. Commonly ...

Biochemical and physiological mechanisms of adaptation of organisms to the marine environment. Special emphasis is on biological responses to temperature, salinity, carbon dioxide, pH and bicarbonate ...

The study of the processes by which marine organisms grow and how factors such as temperature, nutrition, microbes, predators, and hormones influence development. (Green fluorescent amphioxus photo by ...