Epigenetics

Question 1

environmental conditions effects on phenotypes

Answer 1

temperature, diet, light, humidity, and the presence of toxins

Question 1

Epigenetics

Answer 1

the study of heritable phenotype changes that do not involve alterations in the DNA nucleotide sequence.

Question 2

things affecting DNA

Answer 2

diet, financial troubles, exercise, social contact, state of your gut and mind, circadian rhythms, health and medication

Question 3

Molecular tags

Answer 3

The most well known epigenetic mechanisms are methylation and acetylation of histones and methylation of DNA. These epigenetic markers act as tags which tell the cell to increase or decrease gene transcription therefore gene expression