Re:Corn Wars
by thaumasiotes on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @02:11PM
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> Corn has 10 pairs of chromosomes. I wonder if you can tell for each pair, which one came from which parent?
For humans the chromosomes are marked in this way. I don't know about corn.
> 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?
Re:Corn Wars
by thaumasiotes on Thursday August 20, 2015 @02:22AM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genomic_imprinting
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.
That is an interesting idea. Corn has 10 pairs of chromosomes. I wonder if you can tell for each pair, which one came from which parent? But then again, it shouldn't matter. As long as a set of 10, and its complement, both produce viable individuals, their offspring should be identical to the desired hybrid.
Now we just must not tell this to the Chinese...