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Female mice disabled by parents' pesticide intake.By Lynn Markham Milwaukee Bay View Compass 28 February 2011A white mouse is placed in the center of a maze. She is hungry because she hasn’t eaten all night. She quickly realizes that turning left at every point gets her food. When a second mouse is set down in the center of the maze she doesn’t seem to remember that taking left turns leads to food. Why is it hard for the second mouse to learn? Three months earlier when she was growing in her mother’s womb, her mother was exposed to a pesticide called chlorpyrifos at levels comparable to what humans encounter in the environment. more…__