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January 28, 2012

entarteten:

thenoobyorker:

Epigenetics by SciShow

Hank & his clone Circus Hank explain the power of epigenetics, which studies the factors that determine how much or whether some genes are expressed in your body.

I’ve seen this video floating around and because I have a difficult time sitting in place or focusing on anything for 10 minutes, I’ve put off watching it. If you’re interested in learning about epigenetics, I recommend this video.

Also recommend: NOVA special on epigenetics, Twins by Peter Miller [Nat Geo], Nature Insight: Epigenetics, the epigenetics section of Science, SciAm’s Epigenetics Explained [animation], Epigenetics: A Turning Point in Our Understanding of Hereditary [SciAm].

Bio is kray.

This is interesting… I mean, it feels sorta pseudo-sciency (this is my first reaction, as I haven’t read much into “epigenetics” and have my reservations in doing so), but it is interesting none the less. Sorta how I feel about psychoanaylsis, lol.

Epigenetics is the inheritance of non-DNA sequence related properties, such as methylations of chromosomes and histone deacetylations. It is not “pseudo-science”…

Two examples of epigenetic phenomena are fingerprints and retinal patterns. These aspects of our physiology are not coded for anywhere in our genome. Rather, they are emergent phenomena—epigenetic. Epigenetics includes the bizarre studies of chaos theory, statistics and recursion, so I understand that the field may raise some eyebrows. Still, epigenetics is hard science, not a horoscope.

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