A Cornell-led study is challenging a decades-old explanation for how chromosomes exchange genetic material within the ...

Parents pass their genes down to their kids, with a child inheriting about 50% of their genome from each parent. But there is another kind of genetic code known as the epigenome that can also be ...

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Scientists have long known that the DNA code in genes is not the only way to pass genetic traits from parents to offspring. "Epigenetic" marks—chemical modifications to DNA that don't change the DNA ...

Mendel's famous laws of heredity, established over a century ago, may not be as universal as once thought. A recent study on ...