Epigenetics - It's not just genes that make us | British Society for Cell Biology - 0 views
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Lottie Peppers on 01 May 15Quick look: In its modern sense, epigenetics is the term used to describe inheritance by mechanisms other than through the DNA sequence of genes. It can apply to characteristics passed from a cell to its daughter cells in cell division and to traits of a whole organism. It works through chemical tags added to chromosomes that in effect switch genes on or off.