D2.2 Epigenetics - reading task
You would expect a Liger, with a lion father and a tigress mother to have about the same genetic makeup as a tigon who has a tiger father and a lioness mother. Why do both male and female ligers grow to twice the size of any tigon? The answer is not in the DNA it's in the epigenome. Lion and tiger hybrids are thought to be affected by epigenetic inheritance. That means they inherit some epigenetic tags via their...