Sentences with phrase «by epigenetic inheritance»
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An example of epigenetic inheritance, this color diversity reflects varying degrees of heritable, but reversible, gene repression by PcG proteins.
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Epigenetics: The Ultimate Mystery of Inheritance By Richard C. Francis (W. W. Norton) Researchers once considered DNA to be the exclusive carrier of heredity, but recently they have discovered that certain life experiences — smoking before puberty, say, or a high - stress pregnancy — can trigger cellular changes that get passed along to future generations.
The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance, by Nessa Carey, Columbia University Press, 2012.