BIOC14H3 Lecture Notes - Human Genome Project, Genomic Imprinting, Chromosome Abnormality
28 Apr 2013
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Science of inheritance turned in its head and we are changing view of what inheritance is. Find grandmothers and daughters and grandfather and grandsons connect people 100 years apart in new ways and uncovering links that confound scientific thinking. Inheritance is just the genes and dna sequences and want to demonstrates inheritance is more than that and a combination of more than 20 years of work and the first time pembry is confronting the magnitude of discovery. Marcus pembry is one of a select band scientist who wants to challenge an orthodoxy and they believe that the lives of our parents and grandparents affect our wellbeing despite never experiencing these things ourselves. To many these ideas is regarded as a scientific herecy: you cannot predict what the important discoveries will be and the only thing you can do is follow your instinct.
