Imprinting

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Since repeated exposure to an environmental stimulus (association) is necessary, we could consider that imprinting is a kind of learning, albeit with a very strong innate element.
Essay Prepared by Kerri Albertson, Lacey Frederick and Scott Palmer Genomic imprinting is an epigenetic phenomenon which, in most cases, is believed to occur in gametogenesis.
Hoffman is the author of Amorous Turkeys and Addicted Ducklings The Science of Social Bonding and Imprinting ISBN 0-9623311-7-1 It is well known that under certain conditions, newly hatched goslings and ducklings will follow and become socially bonded to the first moving object they encounter.
Q: What are the conditions that make career imprinting more likely? A: Since career imprints derive from shared career experiences, career imprinting is more likely to occur when people do indeed have very similar kinds of career experiences at a particular employer.
Genomic imprinting presents a genetic conundrum: why should a mechanism that renders an organism hemizygous for ~100 genes arise in evolution? It has been proposed that imprinting is a form of conflict between mothers and fathers in non-mongamous species.

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