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epigenetics
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epigenetics [¦ep·ə·jə¦ned·iks]
(genetics)
The study of those processes by which genetic information ultimately results in distinctive physical and behavioral characteristics.


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These new biological arguments provide a modern context suggesting that Kammerer could be the actual discoverer of epigenetic inheritance.
Verstrepen, Timescales of Genetic and Epigenetic Inheritance, 128 CELL 655, 655-61 (2007).
The remaining 23 invited papers explore the human, mosquito, and viral factors that contribute to the global spread and persistence of dengue; the possible roles of interlinked bistable networks, epigenetic inheritance, and bet-hedging in bacteria; and the identification and localization of base J in the genome of kinetoplastids, the enzymes involved in J biosynthesis, and possible biological functions.
 
 
 
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