The team was never able to get all the necessary genes in at the same time, and they only got the plant to glow dimly. (businessinsider.com)
The egg's very structure, its scaffolding of proteins that guide the chromosomes during cell division, may also play a key role in turning on the necessary genes. (science.sciencemag.org)
The difference is that Keeling's parasites steal energy, in the form of a molecule called adenosine triphosphate or ATP, from their hosts, but they possess the necessary genes to replicate DNA. (scientificamerican.com)