The Journal of Theoretical Fimpology. Volume 1, Issue 3: e-20120717-1-3-6. August 19, 2013 (www.fimpology.com)
The Female May Play More Roles in Biological Heredity Than the Male Does: Female-Relayed Integral Cell and Cytoplasmic Inheritance
Shu-dong Yin
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8661-6889
Cory H. E. R. & C. Inc., Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Email: [email protected]
Abstract
For more than a century, nuclear inheritance-centered modern genetics has resulted in the impression that the female and the male play an equal role in biological heredity; and the importance of cytoplasmic inheritance has been ignored as Lamarck's theory was fully discarded by the Modern Synthesis that unified Darwinian natural selection and Mendelian genetics in the mid-20th century. Recently, six models of pregnancy-associated eukaryotic cell transmission between mother and offspring have demonstrated their significance in biology and ecology from the fimpological perspective [1, 2], based on which, a model called "female-relayed integral cell and cytoplasmic inheritance" further illustrates that both fertilized oocyte-mediated cytoplasmic inheritance (FOMCI) and pregnancy-associated integral cell inheritance (PAICI) could be transferred to offspring generation by generation along the pregnancy-associated female path; and moreover, both FOMCI and PAICI are determined by reproductive female offspring, not by reproductive male offspring. Clearly, modern genetics lacks FOMCI and PAICI, and therefore is not enough to reflect the whole content of biological heredity, in which, the female may play more roles than the male does.