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Does the hard shell of a chicken egg come from the genetics of the chick or of the mother?
A chicken's reproductive system consists of two parts: the ovary and oviduct.
All of the other parts of the egg are added to the yolk as it passes through the oviduct. The chalazae, albumen, shell ...
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How many ancestors' DNA do we have per generation?
A paper just came out from Elizabeth Thompson that I think answers this about as well as it's going to get answered. Here is the pertinent section of the abstract that may give you an intuition for ...
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