Sentences with phrase «sperm and eggs transmit»

«How epigenetic memory is passed through generations: Sperm and eggs transmit memory of gene repression to embryos.»

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And the changes are handed down: While most of the chimp genome's 24 pairs of chromosomes undergo a genetic reshuffling during the production of sperm and eggs, with genes swapped between the two copies, there is only one Y chromosome and thus no mixing — the Y is transmitted intaAnd the changes are handed down: While most of the chimp genome's 24 pairs of chromosomes undergo a genetic reshuffling during the production of sperm and eggs, with genes swapped between the two copies, there is only one Y chromosome and thus no mixing — the Y is transmitted intaand eggs, with genes swapped between the two copies, there is only one Y chromosome and thus no mixing — the Y is transmitted intaand thus no mixing — the Y is transmitted intact.

Survivors retain KoRV DNA in their sperm and eggs, transmitting the virus to future generations without causing disease.

The laboratories of CSHL Professors Gregory J. Hannon and Leemor Joshua - Tor, both Investigators of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, joined forces to scrutinize the process by which a class of genome defenders called PIWI - interacting RNAs (piRNAs) are generated in cells of the germline — eggs and sperm that bear an organism's genetic inheritance and transmit this information to offspring.