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IMPORTANT FINDING. "A non-Mendelian system of inheritance has "enormous implications," says Lolle, with the potential to unseat nearly two centuries of assumptions in genetic research. Suddenly during their conversation, the reporter blurted out "someone just broke the embargo - wow, this is going to be bigger than Dolly! The paper was a really Big Bang." https://lnkd.in/dv6b49K View in LinkedIn

PARADIGM BUSTER. "If you take this mutant Arabidopsis, which has two copies of the altered gene, let it seed and then plant the seeds, 90 percent of the offspring will look like the parent, but 10 percent will look like the normal grandparents. Our genetic training tells us that's just not possible. This challenges everything we believe." https://lnkd.in/dtXtGxH View in LinkedIn

"THE FIRST CLUE that the classic inheritance rules didn't always apply was the discovery of normal flowers on some offspring of mutant plants. In the deformed parents, the flowers were fused into tight balls. But in the grandparents and 10 percent of the grandchildren, the buds become 1-millimeter-long, bright white flowers that fully opened and radiated out from the center of a cluster." https://lnkd.in/dtXtGxH View in LinkedIn

HIDDEN GENETIC TEMPLATES. "These mutant parent plants apparently have hidden templates containing genetic information from the preceding generation that can be transferred to their offspring, even though the traits aren't evident in the parents." (Robert Pruitt). https://lnkd.in/dtXtGxH View in LinkedIn

FLAWS IN MENDEL'S 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 their predecessors carried genetic flaws...researchers found that a watercress plant sometimes corrects the genetic code it inherited from its flawed parents and grows normally like its grandparents and other ancestors." https://lnkd.in/dntMsUY View in LinkedIn

MENDELIAN BOMBSHELL. "Genome-wide non-Mendelian inheritance of extra-genomic information in Arabidopsis. Here we show that Arabidopsis plants homozygous for recessive mutant alleles of the organ fusion gene HOTHEAD 5 (HTH) can inherit allele-specific DNA sequence information that was not present in the chromosomal genome of their parents but was present in previous generations." http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v434/n7032/abs/nature03380.html View in LinkedIn

FORTY TWO. "As the computer Deep Thought pointed out in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, it’s no good spending seven and a half million years working on the answer if you don’t start with a good idea of what the question is." " "The Answers by Catherine Lacey review – how to solve the love problem https://lnkd.in/eNPN7Gz View in LinkedIn

THE MODERN SYNTHESIS “is rightly regarded as one of the major achievements of biology and led to the widespread adoption of several core assumptions.” https://lnkd.in/din4RvV View in LinkedIn

MESMERIZINGLY STUPID. Today, it seems, all we can talk about is the tweets of the US president. What about extraterrestial life? View in LinkedIn

THE MODERN SYNTHESIS has been the accepted consensus view of evolution. Developed in the 1930s and 1940s, Neo-Darwinism fused Mendelian genetics (1865) with Darwinian evolution (Origin of Species, 1859) into a new unified theory of evolution. https://lnkd.in/d5hFgkR View in LinkedIn