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by gus_massa 743 days ago
> Some crucial information could be passed from one female to another without being present in the genome at all.

Hard to know, but two interesting corner cases:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrion (but they have their own DNA...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centriole (but it looks like they can grow again "However, [...] cells whose centrioles have been removed via laser ablation [...] centrioles can be synthesized later in a de novo fashion."