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- adverb Pertaining to, or during,
meiosis .
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Examples
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Gene silencing mediated by promoter homology occurs at the level of transcription and results in meiotically heritable alterations in methylation and gene activity.
Advanced Information: The 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006
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When you see how these chromosomes are scrambled, you'll wonder how they ever managed to sort themselves out meiotically to produce viable offspring…but life will find a way.
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When you see how these chromosomes are scrambled, you'll wonder how they ever managed to sort themselves out meiotically to produce viable offspring…but life will find a way.
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"These are people who began as the same/ meiotically rendered egg as you and me," Goldbarth writes.
Archive 2004-02-01 2004
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"These are people who began as the same/ meiotically rendered egg as you and me," Goldbarth writes.
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Although seldom studied, environmentally-alterable meiotically-heritable epigenetic signals exist and provide a mechanism underlying genotype-by-environment interactions.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2010
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If environmentally-altered meiotically-heritable epigenetic effects are widespread - which is an important open empirical question - they have the potential to alter paradigmatic views of evolutionary medicine and the putative dichotomy of nature versus nurture.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2010
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Hassold T, Hunt P (2001) To err (meiotically) is human: the genesis of human aneuploidy.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Vincent Gache et al. 2010
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Environmentally-alterable meiotically-heritable epigenetic signals could also underlie other diseases, such as diabetes, Prader-Willi syndrome, and many complex diseases.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2010
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If industrial contaminants adversely affect organisms by meiotically-heritably altering their epigenetic signals, then cleaning up these contaminants will not remedy the problem.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2010
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