TODAY i found out about a regulatory mechanism called genomic imprinting that silences genes depending on the gender of the parent they're from, and then i squealed and giggled and jumped up and down.
"It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes liars of us all." - Vaillant. (1977). Adaptation to Life.