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Plants May Be Able To Correct Mutated Genes

Posted by timothy on from the early-stages dept.

ddutt writes "NY Times is running a story that talks of an exciting new discovery, which, if confirmed, could represent an unprecedented exception to Mendel's laws of inheritance. The discovery involves.. 'plants that possess a corrected version of a defective gene inherited from both their parents, as if some handy backup copy with the right version had been made in the grandparents' generation or earlier.'"

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  1. Plant Superheroes! by The+Amazing+Fish+Boy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm gonna start putting my cactus near my spider plant and praying for some of that mutated gene action.

    OK, OK... and some hot plant-on-plant action.

    OK, OK... and some hot plant-on-plant-on-me action.