Due to their invasive nature, and their potentially disruptive production of ncRNAs, most transposons are dangerous to plants and metazoans alike. Given the lack of distinction between germ-line and somatic cells in the plant kingdom, this is doubly so, since alterations to the genetic and epigenetic code will be more easily inherited. While transposable elements may affect any number of different cell-types in an animal, be a skin cell, a liver cell, a brain cell, these changes are not heritable, due to the fact that an animal inherits only a parents gametic genetic code. In plants, however, there is no such distinction; a flower develops from a meristem, which is a form of somatic cell, and which will pass down to the flower, and thus to the offspring, any genetic or epigenetic alteration. Since each meristem will have developed differently, each different flower from each meristem of the same plant will potentially possess different modifications. In contrast to animals, however, plants do not undergo chromatin remodeling between generations, making the maintenance and inheritance of silencing an entirely different process. There are distinct and identifiable mechanisms on the maintenance of transposon inactivation in plants but, unfortunately, there is significantly less information on initiation of said inactivation.