This story appears in the August 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. If you took a glance ... and rearrange the DNA of nearly any living organism, including us. In the past three years ...

DNA has identified this regal beauty as Amenhotep ... Kenneth Garrett has photographed 15 stories on Egypt for the magazine and collaborated with Zahi Hawass on six books.

Genes exist in most cells. Inside a cell is a long strand of the chemical DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). A DNA sequence is a specific lineup of chemical base pairs along its strand. The part of DNA ...

As opposed to gene-level mutations, mutations that alter longer stretches of DNA (ranging from multiple genes up to entire chromosomes) are called chromosomal mutations. These mutations often have ...