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> For humans the chromosomes are marked in this way. I'd like to read about this. Can you give a link (or just relevant words for googling), please?
by sampo 11y ago
> For humans the chromosomes are marked in this way.
I'd like to read about this. Can you give a link (or just relevant words for googling), please?
- thaumasiotes 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genomic_imprinting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genomic_imprinting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_methylation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_methylation That's about as much as I know. Genomic imprinting is specifically to do with DNA that behaves differently depending on whether it's paternal or maternal. The most famous example of this "in real life" is Prader-Willi syndrome (mentioned in the imprinting article), in which the same genetic defect causes one of two radically different pathologies, depending on whether it came from the mother or father. I think it's worth noting here that plant genetics is vastly more complex in basically every way than animal genetics.