Epigenetics: 100 Reasons To Change The Way We Think About Genetics

Monday, May 18, 2009 - 11:21 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Increasingly, biologists are finding that non-genetic variation acquired during the life of an organism can sometimes be passed on to offspring -- a phenomenon known as epigenetic inheritance. A new article lists over 100 well-documented cases of epigenetic inheritance between generations of organisms, and suggests that non-DNA inheritance happens much more often than scientists previously thought.

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