Sentences with phrase «gene in a single generation»

First, the ability to mutate both copies of a gene in a single generation should greatly accelerate genetic research in diverse species.

It was once assumed that environmental factors took generations to affect a gene change, but research is now finding that a bad enough toxin or environmental stress can alter genes in a single generation.

Not exact matches

«Because individuals carrying a single mutant copy of a gene often mate with an individual with two normal copies of gene, defects can be hidden for a generation and then show up in the grandchildren,» Bier adds.

The research goal is to use a naturally - occurring (t - complex) and / or CRISPR «gene drive» in mice to facilitate a bias of subsequent rodent generations to all be a single sex.

This may be true in a first generation cross (F1) because to inherit a genetic disease which is caused by a single recessive gene, offspring would need to inherit the gene from both parents.