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Faddish Stuff: Epigenetics and the Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics
Author(s) -
Ptashne Mark
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fj.13-0101ufm
Subject(s) - epigenetics , inheritance (genetic algorithm) , biology , evolutionary biology , genetics , gene
“Epigenetic changes are short-term heritable alterations in gene expression that are not due to mutations . . . . Like variations in a letter’s font . . .we are still at sea as to how it all works . . . short term bar codes on our cells so that they remember where they’ve been and where they should be going . . . if they get lost we call it cancer, etc. . since epigenetic changes can be induced by diet, etc . . .”