The Lyon hypothesis, nicely illustrated

Dang, I teach all this stuff about genes and chromosomes and epigenetics, but I don't have the advantage of giant floating holographic molecules floating around me. Maybe I'll have to steal this for my classes.


Although it could use some discussion of Blaschko's lines, to explain why you get a stripey pattern rather than just salt-and-pepper.

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