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Epigenetics and Its Ethical Implications.
Critical reviews in eukaryotic gene expression - 1 Jan 2021
Ribatti Domenico
Abstract excerpt
The biologist Conrad Waddington first coined the term epigenetics, defining it as "the branch of biology that studies the causal interactions between genes and their products and creates a phenotype." The molecular mechanisms underlying epigenetics are complex. Epigenetic changes are rapid, functional, nonstructural, and reversible, and these DNA changes are partly transmissible from one generation to the next....
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