On Saturday, Charles Darwin's birthday, and he would now be 200 years old. Even today, large portions of the members of the Catholic Church creationists and over 53% of people in the U.S. reported a recently published survey by the newspaper USA Today , they were definitely of the opinion that God created the human would have created exactly as they are today. Well, Americans have elected Bush a second time ...
What I find even more interesting is the question of the inheritance of acquired characteristics or abilities. Long believed that only mutations of the genes could permanently be passed.
The verdict against the so-called Lamarckism the question of the inheritance of acquired characteristics was largely taboo. A new date and research explosiveness won the topic recently with the rediscovery of complex epigenetic inheritance process through the life sciences - that such inheritance processes that can not be attributed to the transfer of DNA , but these are downstream, ie epi-genetic phenomena concern. The scientists were able to prove in animal experiments that once acquired patterns are inherited from generation to generation. It became evident also that the diet of the parent generation coat color influenced. Previously completed the dogma of classical genetics such a connection from. Epigenetics allows the transfer to environmental influences.
But had provided Prof. Renato Paro of Heidelberg Center for Molecular Biology and ETH Zurich recently in an attempt to fly the proof. grow in a climate chamber purely stocky flies, which all have the same genes. The experiment was conducted on the larvae. To them again to make a random selection, the nutrient solution was shared with the larvae into two halves. One was later to control, with the other, the experiment continued. At 37 degrees - dangerously hot for the larvae, but not got one part of a heat shock. Thus, a heat shock is an example of an environmental impact, an experience that the flies had. The small heat shock has been able to re create an epigenetic switch: The eye color had changed. She was now red. In the control group it remained white. Even when the children of the heat shock-fly, the animals had red eyes - the heat-shock experience is inheritable.
end of life seems a man and his ancestral genes to influence. It decides whether investments enabled or not. This could faster evolution and targeted have played, as Darwin had imagined.
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