Assertion: epigenetic inheritance | /r/CapableOf | play role
Facets:
value: in cell specialization in unicellular populations
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Nanney (1960) suggested that epigenetic inheritance played a role in cell specialization in unicellular populations (colonies), which conferred economic benefits to individual cells and enabled populations to survive environmental traumas due to their heterogeneity, prior to the emergence of true multi-cellularity.