chimera: Quick Facts

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A chimeric adult mouse with mottled cream and brown fur sits beside two brown pups, all on a light blue surface. The pups carry the agouti coat color gene.

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dispermic chimera androgenetic chimera tetragametic chimera microchimera twin chimera parthenogenetic chimera tetragametic individual DNA chimera heredity heritability Testcross Clone genetics Lamarckism RNA gene chromosome Why are there different blood types?Mendelian inheritance

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