Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 105, No. 16 (Apr. 22, 2008), pp. 5980-5985 (6 pages) Genes encoded by mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) exist in large ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Contrary to inheritance laws the scientific world has accepted for more than 100 years, some plants revert to normal traits carried by their grandparents, bypassing genetic ...

Genetics is important to our understanding of selection for at least three reasons: first, although the concept of selection seems obvious, it was not until selection was linked to Mendelian genetics ...

Home > Pressemitteilung: Targeted inheritance of sex improves ... A new study from Bernhard Herrmann’s group at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics shows how targeted, non-Mendelian ...

ANOTHER direct challenge has been posed to one of the cornerstones of biology, Mendel’s laws of inheritance. Mendel’s laws underlie almost all of genetics. They state, for example, that it is the ...

It’s a commonly observed habit in families to draw likenesses between members of the youngest generation and their ancestors. “This baby has a smile like her mother,” one would say, or, “He has ...

Researchers at RIKEN have uncovered a mechanism by which the effects of stress in the fly species Drosophila are inherited epigenetically over many generations through changes to the structure of ...

HALF a century before Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck outlined his own theory of evolution. A cornerstone of this was the idea that ...