R2d2 beats Mendel: Scientists find selfish gene that breaks long-held law of inheritance
Wednesday, February 11, 2015 - 14:00
in Health & Medicine
The force is strong with this one. UNC School of Medicine researchers discovered a gene called R2d2 - Responder to meiotic drive 2 - that breaks Gregor Mendel's century-old "law of segregation," which states that you have an equal probability of inheriting each of two copies of every gene from both parents.