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THE WHY. "The puzzle has two sides: why and how has the somatic part of higher animals come to be mortal, and how is the germ-line kept free of the progressive deterioration in the soma?" http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4613-1939-9_15 View in LinkedIn

BURNT NORTON by TSE." ""Time present and time past" "Are both perhaps present in time future" "And time future contained in time past." "If all time is eternally present" "All time is unredeemable." https://lnkd.in/gWpeKKa View in LinkedIn

UNBROKEN CONTINUITY. "The germ-line of species is immortal, at least in the sense that an unbroken continuity extends backwards in time to the origin of terrestrial life and forwards in time to an indeterminate future. This observation is a truism." https://lnkd.in/gVUuUB6 View in LinkedIn

IMMORTAL LINK. "Animal germline cells ultimately produce eggs and sperm, providing an immortal link to the next generation." https://lnkd.in/gWaCZiv View in LinkedIn

SPECIAL CELLS. "Germ cells possess a dual identity: they are both highly specialized and uniquely capable of forming an entirely new organism." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009286740800202X View in LinkedIn

RESET BUTTON. "Epigenetic information undergoes extensive reprogramming in the germline between generations. During normal germline transmission, the epigenetic state of the genome is known to undergo reprogramming both in the gametes and the early embryo." https://lnkd.in/gt5vs8F View in LinkedIn

SPECIAL RESPONSIBILITY. "Since the genetic information contained within germ cells is passed from generation to generation, the germ line is often referred to as immortal. Therefore, it is possible that germ cells possess unique strategies to protect and transmit the genetic information contained within them indefinitely." https://lnkd.in/dsBeTUt View in LinkedIn

CELLULAR GATEWAY TO THE FUTURE. "Germline stem cells (GSCs) sustain gamete production, both oogenesis (egg production) and spermatogenesis (sperm production), in many organisms." https://lnkd.in/dsBeTUt View in LinkedIn

MAZE TESTS. “The ability to traverse a maze is a standard test of intelligence and behavior in animals: maze learning has been used for many years in psychology to test the intellectual abilities of small mammals and other animals.” https://ukacc.group.shef.ac.uk/proceedings/control2008/papers/p246.pdf View in LinkedIn

GENE FUNNEL BETWEEN GENERATIONS. "Germ cells are highly specialized cells that form gametes, and they are the only cells within an organism that contribute genes to offspring." https://lnkd.in/dsBeTUt View in LinkedIn