Does DNA alter during metamorphosis?

[Jim Mason]

Someone asked me if DNA extracted from each of the four stages of a
holometabolous insect would be identical.  It seems obvious to me it would,
but bugz do weird stuff sometimes.  Can anyone address this question with
exactitude?

Jim Mason, Naturalist
Jim at gpnc.org
Great Plains Nature Center
6232 E. 29th Street North
Wichita, KS 67220-2200
316-683-5499 x103 - voice
316-688-9555 - fax
www.gpnc.org




 
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