Epigenetics
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
|
Related e |
|
Featured: |
In biology, and specifically genetics, epigenetics is the study of changes produced in gene expression caused by mechanisms other than changes in the underlying DNA sequence –hence the name epi- (Greek: επί- over, above, outer) -genetics. Examples of such changes might be DNA methylation or histone deacetylation, both of which serve to suppress gene expression without altering the sequence of the silenced genes.
See also
- B chromosome
- Epigenetic Theory
- Baldwin effect
- Centromere
- Computational epigenetics
- Dutch famine of 1944 (scientific legacy)
- Evolutionary developmental psychology
- Emergenesis
- Histone code
- Human genome
- Molecular biology
- Nutriepigenomics
- Preformationism
- Somatic epitype
- Synthetic genetic array
- Weismann barrier
- Epigenetic theories of homosexuality
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Epigenetics" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.
