Mar
23
2005
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Link: Yahoo! News - Plants Challenge Genetic Inheritance Laws.
Challenging a scientific law of inheritance that has stood for 150 years, scientists say plants sometimes select better bits of DNA in order to develop normally even when they inherited genetic flaws from their predecessors.
Pretty amazing that everything that seemed to be thought might now be more complex:
"This means that inheritance can happen more flexibly than we thought," said Robert Pruitt, the paper’s senior author.
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