However, animal mtDNA is restricted in the types of exchange that can occur because uniparental inheritance prevents intermingling of genomes.
You might think to dispute this by kicking a rock, but remember that both the rock and your foot are mostly empty space, prevented from intermingling by electric fields.
In some developmental contexts, this Hox function may suffice to prevent enough cell intermingling but, in others, it could have been largely overridden during evolution by derived segmentation genes such as Krox20, engrailed and hedgehog.
If Isis's strategy is to prevent the relaxed and happy intermingling of faiths and cultures it so fears, by keeping infidels out of Muslim countries and vice versa, there are signs that it might actually be beginning to work.
This will prevent last night's dinner from intermingling with this morning's breakfast.
The Japanese hoped that as the Americans surrounded and intermingled with the Japanese defensive pockets that the close quarters fighting would prevent the Americans from employing their superior firepower in artillery and close air support.
For the first time since Congress eliminated Depression-era barriers last fall that prevented banks and insurance companies from intermingling their businesses, a major insurance company, Metropolitan Life, said yesterday that it was taking steps to go into full-service banking.
[C8.] MetLife Prepares to Enter Banking For the first time since Congress eliminated barriers last fall that prevented banks and insurance companies from intermingling their businesses, a major insurance company, MetLife, said that one of its units was taking steps to go into full-service banking.
Congress is debating whether to reverse some of the late-1990s laws that repealed the Great Depression safeguards that prevented commercial and investment banks from intermingling.
There is some intermingling between nationalities, too.
