Epigenetics/Iheritance and the Environment - GeneEd - Genetics, Education, Discovery

Epigenetics/Iheritance and the Environment - GeneEd - Genetics, Education, Discovery

Epigenetics/Inheritance and the Environment

The genome’s dynamic response to the environment

Epigenetics is an emerging field of science that studies heritable changes caused by the activation and deactivation of genes without any change in the underlying DNA sequence of the organism. The wordepigenetics is of Greek origin and literally means over and above (epi) the genome.

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