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From: werner@aecom.yu.edu (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Biology of Four Leaf Clover ??
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Date: 29 Jun 89 04:32:31 GMT
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	Today I found a 4 leaf clover while walking off a softball field.
While this is the fifth four leaf clover I have ever seen in my lifetime,
this is the first one that I have ever found on my own (as opposed to
someone who I was with first noticing it).  
	Being a biologist (but not a botanist), certain questions came to
mind after the initial mystique wore off.  Is the tendency to four-leaf'ness
genetically controlled?  Does it breed true, and if so is it dominant or
recessive? Or is the extra leaf a developmental rarity, not reflected in
the genetic makeup of the plant?


-- 
	        Craig Werner   (future MD/PhD, 4.5 years down, 2.5 to go)
	     werner@aecom.YU.EDU -- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
              (1935-14E Eastchester Rd., Bronx NY 10461, 212-931-2517)
 "..pursuing Dharma, Artha, and Kama (although not nearly enough of the last)."