Daughter cells inherit the genetic scars during cell division.
Proper control of the cell cycle is necessary to ensure that the resulting
daughter cells inherit identical copies of the DNA.
Not exact matches
At the end of
cell division, the two centrioles
inherited by each
daughter cell separate, and later each of them forms a new centriole.
These mother
cells can pump out drugs more efficiently than the
daughter cells which did not
inherit old
cell poles.
One interesting finding from this study was that the speed of migration, maintained relatively constant throughout the life of a
cell, is not
inherited from the mother down to the
daughter cells.
As a result, the
daughter cell does not
inherit the defective proteins that burden the mother
cell.
When the single -
celled organism splits in two, the
daughter cell - the swarmer -
inherits a propeller to swim freely.
In contrast, epigenetic marks left by targeted epigenetic modifiers may be more frequently
inherited by
daughter cells.
Nevertheless, their protein - conformation dependent traits are dominantly
inherited from mother
cells to all
daughter cells and could be transmitted via cytoplasmic transfer — two key prion traits.
Mother
cells pass these proteins to their
daughters, so the change, once it occurs, is
inherited from generation to generation.