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SOMATIC MOSAICS. "Nearly all of the genetic material among cells within an organism is identical. However, single nucleotide variants (SNVs), indels, copy number variants (CNVs), and other structural variants (SVs) continually accumulate as cells divide during development. This process results in an organism composed of countless cells, each with its own unique personal genome. Thus, every human is undoubtedly mosaic." https://lnkd.in/dtPwxTq View in LinkedIn

DISTINCTION. "Mosaicism stands in contrast to chimerism, the phenomenon of an individual being composed of the products of two or more fertilization events." https://lnkd.in/dtPwxTq View in LinkedIn

DISTINCTION. "Mosaicism stands in contrast to chimerism, the phenomenon of an individual being composed of the products of two or more fertilization events." https://lnkd.in/dtPwxTq View in LinkedIn

GIANT TULIP GENOME. "The tulip genome is gigantic, it is ten times as big as the human genome amounting to 30 Bio nucloetides, while we have 3.2 Bio of nucleotides." https://lnkd.in/dqpDyTS View in LinkedIn

MOSAICISM. "A fundamental principle of biology is that the DNA blueprint of a multicellular organism is identical among cells within the organism. The term mosaicism describes a violation of this principle that arises when specific cells within a developing organism mutate to develop two or more cell populations with distinct genotypes." https://lnkd.in/dtPwxTq View in LinkedIn

"EPIGENETIC CHANGES as cause of colors were detected in the 1950ies for maize kernels by Barbara McClintock from Cold Spring Habor Laboratories. The Laws of Gregor Mendel`s were known, but the color patterns did not obey them and it was the genius of McClintock`s to conclude that this was what is now known as epigenetic changes." https://lnkd.in/dqpDyTS View in LinkedIn

MORNING GLORY JUMPING GENES. "Most of these spontaneous mutations were found to be caused by the insertion of DNA transposable elements in the genes for the anthocyanin pigmentation in flowers, and many of them exhibited variegated flowers, such as white flowers with pigmented spots and sectors." https://lnkd.in/dUsSCep View in LinkedIn

TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS. "Today we describe jumping genes by computer programs as "cut-and paste", a piece of DNA is cut out and reinserted into the DNA genome, designated as transposable or mobile genetic elements. They are rudimentary "locked-in-viruses", which cannot leave a cell but can only move from one location to another one in the genome. Plants are especially active till today with such active DNA transposable element." https://lnkd.in/dqpDyTS View in LinkedIn

JUMPING GENES IN FLOWERS AND PLANTS have been well characterized: in the famous multi-colored Indian Corn, Morning Glories, snapdragons, sweet peas, 4'O clock plants, in Camellias, and other plants. https://lnkd.in/dvk8fK5 View in LinkedIn

VIRAL DRIVEN FLOWERS. "Some of the best characterized beneficial viruses that have been used in plants are those that enhance the beauty of ornamental plants. Tulip breaking virus was the first of a long list of the beautiful viruses, but many other prized ornamentals owe their value, at least in part, to the viruses that infect them." https://lnkd.in/d7TweVT View in LinkedIn