Article
Dual inheritance.
Current topics in microbiology and immunology - 1 Jan 2006
Holliday R
Abstract excerpt
Genetic inheritance in higher organisms normally refers to the transmission of information from one generation to the next. Nevertheless, there is also inheritance in somatic cells, characterised by the phenotypic stability of differentiated cells that divide (such as fibroblasts and lymphocytes), and also mitosis of stem line cells, which gives rise to another stem line daughter cell, and one that will...
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