Questions

Questions:

1. What experiments did Lolle et al. perform in order to rule out the possibility that their results could be explained by outcrossing?

2. What additional experiments could they have done to rule this out? What tool we have today could have addressed the problem in a single experiment?

3. As you decide for yourself what you think is going on, how do you weigh the following:

a) experimental evidence from a single lab

b) experimental evidence from multiple labs

c) the lack of a mechanism for a reproducibly observed phenomenon

d) 150 years of evidence for Mendelian inheritance of traits

e) scientific intuition

f) the reputation of the investigators

g) the journal in which the paper was published

h) anything else?