Mothers can pass traits to offspring through bacteria's DNA
Monday, February 16, 2015 - 19:00
in Biology & Nature
Herbert W. Virgin, MD, PhD (left), and Thad Stappenbeck, MD, PhD, have shown that mothers can pass a trait to their offspring through the DNA of bacteria. It's a firmly established fact straight from Biology 101: Traits such as eye color and height are passed from one generation to the next through the parents' DNA.