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📅 MIT Science Bowl 2022🎓 HS🔄 Round 10#️⃣ Question 5🌟 BONUS✍️ Short Answer

Researchers in the Gehring Lab at MIT are investigating the role of RNA polymerase IV in endosperm epigenetics and have discovered that the enzyme can be influenced such that it is only inherited paternally or maternally. What is the term for such an effect, where the expression of a gene depends on the side of inheritance?

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