Worms Can Pass a Trait Down for 100 Generations…Without Using DNA | Papers | Scoop.it
From blogs.discovermagazine.com - August 22, 2013 5:40 PM

A new paper in Cell reports that worms whose grandparents had the ability to fight viruses using a fleet of tiny RNA molecules retain these molecules even when they don’t have the genes for them. They can pass these molecules down for more than a hundred generations.


Via Sakis Koukouvis