Epigenetics
Published on Nov 19, 2015
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WHAT IS EPIGENETICS?
- Epigenetics is the study of chemical reactions and
- the factors that influence the reactions.
- Organisms carefully orchestrated chemical
- reactions activate and deactivate parts of genes
- at certain times
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WHO DISCOVERED EPIGENETICS?
- In the early 1940s, an embryologist
- named Conrad Waddington
- came with the idea of epigenetics in
- his lab in Britain.
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HOW IS EPIGENETICS USED?
- Using Epigenetics can determine
- modifications if or when a gene is
- expressed in a cell or organism
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WHY IS EPIGENETICS USED?
- Epigenetics was first used
- to describe the interactions
- between genes and
- gene products.
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