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Furthermore, for many [E. Coli] cells the only source of some proteins is those that are inherited from the mother cell, as mRNA is produced relatively rarely (see the figure). This results in unequal inheritance of the limited number of molecules of a given protein during cell division (8, 10), a phenomenon that also occurs in mammalian cells (11).