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I'm curious what the mechanism is, though. From the perspective of a complete layperson - does this mean that the genome is modified based on acquired character

by aarghh 16y ago

I'm curious what the mechanism is, though. From the perspective of a complete layperson - does this mean that the genome is modified based on acquired characteristics? Or are there other mechanism to carry the signal?

turbofail 16y ago
The Wikipedia article on epigenetics goes over some mechanisms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics