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Re:Corn Wars by sampo on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @03:14PM (#10087726)
> 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 (#10090250)
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.