Do organisms have the capability to “bypass unhealthy sequences from their parents and revert to the healthier genetic code possessed by their grandparents or great-grandparents”. “Pruitt speculates that the plants carry a previously undiscovered store of the related molecule RNA, that acts as a backup copy of DNA. Such molecules could be passed into pollen or seeds along with DNA and used as a template to correct certain genes.”
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