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.
I'd like to read about this. Can you give a link (or just relevant words for googling), please?