Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to epigenetics.
- adjective Of or relating to epigenesis.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or produced by epigenesis.
- Of, pertaining to, or produced by epigenesis.
- In physical geography, a term applied to those rivers whose courses have been determined by the slope of a once overlying series of strata, now removed by erosion so as to disclose rock-structures of another arrangement; superposed; inherited.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the epigenesis; produced according to the theory of epigenesis.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective genetics, mineralogy Of, or relating to
epigenesis . - adjective genetics Of, or relating to
epigenetics .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I know that identical twins gradually start to deviate in epigenetic structure from birth – a fascinating subject, I highly recommend it.
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And the second discipline is called epigenetic which says that environmental factors, personal relationships, social interactions, lifestyle, can actually regulate the expression of your genes.
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Collectively, the processes that we believe have been neglected in evolutionary studies are known as epigenetic mechanisms.
Archive 2009-01-04 William Harryman 2008
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Professor Keith Godfrey University of Southampton Studies in animals have shown that changes in diet can alter the function of genes - known as epigenetic change.
BBC News - Home 2011
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Indeed, scientists are coming to realize that subtle changes in our genetic material -- technically known as epigenetic changes -- can alter the way that genes are turned on and off, in ways that affect the body's functioning.
www.startribune.com 2012
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Changes in chromosome structure, as opposed to changes in the genes themselves, that can be passed on from one generation to the next are called epigenetic changes.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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Changes in chromosome structure, as opposed to changes in the genes themselves, that can be passed on from one generation to the next are called epigenetic changes.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Changes in chromosome structure, as opposed to changes in the genes themselves, that can be passed on from one generation to the next are called epigenetic changes.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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Changes in chromosome structure, as opposed to changes in the genes themselves, that can be passed on from one generation to the next are called epigenetic changes.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Changes in chromosome structure, as opposed to changes in the genes themselves, that can be passed on from one generation to the next are called epigenetic changes.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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