Surprising Observations

By Andrea Gawrylewski

Lolle and her colleagues observed an inheritance pattern in hothead plants that didn't match what classical genetic laws would predict. Instead of first generation progeny inheriting their parents' alleles, 10% had wild-type alleles.

I thought that all organisms under certain circumstances revert to wild type. Isn't it true even of dogs inbred over many generations?
Also, even though it's heresy to suggest, isn't there some genetic change that is, in fact, with respect to need? I'm thinking of M. Nashimoto's exvivo reverse translation from protein to RNA. He holds a patent on a method as does another- Gold. Add Reverse transcription to the mix and you have it. I'd like to see it shown invivo. I'm working on it using Lac- E coli and keeping in mind that Lac- can become Lac+ by way of a frame shift mutation.