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How are genetic hallmarks of aging somehow “reset” at conception?
I’m a layman and genuinely curious about this, so forgive me if I use the wrong terminology or obviously don’t know what I’m talking about. Regardless of whether parents have a child at 18 or at 40, ...
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Is there potential to modify GM crops to inhibit their reproduction with non-GM crops?
I've been reading on terminator gene sequences and was wondering whether the same technology could be applied to GM crops to prevent transgene flow. Turns out Monsanto had developed the technology but ...
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Inheritance of child behavior based on daily life experiences of the parent
Our brain is a large network of neurons connected with each other.Our daily experiences change how our neurons are connected.Some experiences create better connections between two neurons A and B and ...
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How can drone bees be born from unfertilized eggs?
I am learning about Drone bees and I keep reading that they are born from unfertilized eggs.
Now here is my question: if eggs are gametes and therefore reproductive cells, how can they turn into a new ...
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Is being able to interbreed and produce fertile offspring a transitive relation in biology?
Being able to interbreed and produce fertile offspring is one criterion to decide whether two populations are of different species.
Are there 3 populations A, B, C such that A and B are able to ...
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Using the law of independent assortment, why can't heterozygous parents make identical twins?
In a case where two parents are heterozygous, why can't any pairs of their children be identical twins? As the question asks, I tried to explain this using the law of independent assortment, which ...
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Reproduction in animals
Humans have acquired knowledge about their environment through many observations. Today, humans have wide variety of resources to gain knowledge about reproduction in human beings and other ...
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How does permanently modifying human DNA work? And how does it impact procreation?
So I read an article about a metabolic disease being treated with gene therapy, where they inserted corrective dna into the patient.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/dna-permanent-change-...
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Monozygotic vs Dizygotic heteropaternal superfecundation
Update: I had a wrong assumption.
After triple checking, I now see that how ordinary monozygotic twins arise is 1 sperm and 1 ovum and then later the zygote splits up.
(1.1. and that that phil and ...
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Is "Cloning" exact or almost similar to parent?
I was studying "Reproduction in Organism" as an interest of my own and there was a line
offspring produced through single parent are exact copies of their parent. Also, they are genetically ...
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How does DNA shape a living organism? [closed]
I'm haven't studied biology so excuse me if I'm getting something wrong.
I'm trying to understand how the DNA from a sperm and egg cause the egg too multiply and form a perticular shape (shape of a ...
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Is there natural occurrence of induced pluripotency / expression of Yamanaka factors and what is the evolutionary explanation of that?
Is there natural biological processes in which the full (full reprogramming into pluripotent state) or partial (partial reprogramming, stopped before point-of-no-return, preserving the functional ...
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How can inbreeding be used for selecting mutations?
I understand that inbreeding, after a number of generations of crossing genetically related individuals eventually yields homozygotes, however I can't seem to understand how it can be used for ...
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What are the advantages of sexual reproduction over asexual reproduction? [closed]
What are the advantages of sexual reproduction over asexual reproduction?
How does variation influence ecological and evolutionary success?
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How can seedless fruits not be GMO?
Biology is the closest I could find to botany on SE. Grafting can not occur naturally and so if a fruit does not have seeds there is no way it could reproduce in nature.
That logic makes complete ...
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