Scientists have known for decades that genes alone don’t account for the full picture of inheritance. For instance, we now know about epigenetics — changes in gene expression that don’t invo ...

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In fact, because most animals lack chloroplasts, the main form of cytoplasmic inheritance in animals is via mitochondrial DNA, which is known as mtDNA. The first people to capture images of DNA ...