Non-Genetic Forms of Inheritance

Question 1

Cultural Inheritance:
a. Cross generation similarity (behavioral traits, nonrandom __) language, social status, norms
EX. song dialect in white crowned sparrows

Answer 1

a. imitation

Question 2

Maternal Effects:
a. non genetic effect of a mother on the __ of her offspring, due to factors such as ___ inheritance, transmission of ___, or provisioning
EX. hormonally mediated __ effects
1. higher cortisol levels in moms bloodstream led to __ growing pups

Answer 2

a. phenotype, cytoplasmic, symbionts
EX. maternal
faster

Question 3

Epigenetics: “__ genetics”

a. Coined by ___

Answer 3

“upon genetics”

a. Waddington

Question 4

Epigenetic Inheritance:
a. inherited changes in gene __ or phenotype that are not based on changes in DNA __
EX. Extensive DNA methylation produces a rare __ phenotype in toadflax, resulting in radial symmetry

Answer 4

a. expression, sequences

mutant