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<blockquote data-quote="primmiemoo" data-source="post: 5406610" data-attributes="member: 83588"><p>It's something called epigenetics. Quite a recent discovery and an emerging field in the study of living things, apparently.</p><p></p><p>The bits I've been able to understand - which is very, very little <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite10" alt=":oops:" title="Oops! :oops:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":oops:" /> - is that the potential of the ewe lamb that's been marked as a keeper started with her grand dam, and she herself is carrying the potential for every lamb she'll ever have, and every lamb the females in her line ever have.</p><p></p><p>It's how the environment she encounters in utero and in the rest of her lifetime interacts with that potential that determines how well it's expressed in the individual sheep in it's lifetime, and also how it's inherited along the bloodline passed on by that sheep. <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/scratchhead.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":scratchhead:" title="Scratchead :scratchhead:" data-shortname=":scratchhead:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/scratchhead.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":scratchhead:" title="Scratchead :scratchhead:" data-shortname=":scratchhead:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/scratchhead.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":scratchhead:" title="Scratchead :scratchhead:" data-shortname=":scratchhead:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/scratchhead.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":scratchhead:" title="Scratchead :scratchhead:" data-shortname=":scratchhead:" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite24" alt="(y)" title="Thumbs Up (y)" loading="lazy" data-shortname="(y)" /> ?</p><p></p><p>It isn't exactly permanent - Genes can be switched on or off in the next generation depending on the environment experienced by the current generation - but it's there.</p><p></p><p></p><p>[A-a-a-nd rest... And read the books again until it sinks in, primmie.]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="primmiemoo, post: 5406610, member: 83588"] It's something called epigenetics. Quite a recent discovery and an emerging field in the study of living things, apparently. The bits I've been able to understand - which is very, very little :oops: - is that the potential of the ewe lamb that's been marked as a keeper started with her grand dam, and she herself is carrying the potential for every lamb she'll ever have, and every lamb the females in her line ever have. It's how the environment she encounters in utero and in the rest of her lifetime interacts with that potential that determines how well it's expressed in the individual sheep in it's lifetime, and also how it's inherited along the bloodline passed on by that sheep. :scratchhead::scratchhead::scratchhead::scratchhead:(y) ? It isn't exactly permanent - Genes can be switched on or off in the next generation depending on the environment experienced by the current generation - but it's there. [A-a-a-nd rest... And read the books again until it sinks in, primmie.] [/QUOTE]
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