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Your DNA is the "cookbook", of what your body can make. Gene expression is what your body happens to be making (and how much) from the cookbook - and's entirel
by goldcd 5y ago
Your DNA is the "cookbook", of what your body can make.
Gene expression is what your body happens to be making (and how much) from the cookbook - and's entirely normal.
I'd have reserved "Genetic changes" for alterations to the cookbook.
- infogulch 5y agoGreat analogy, thanks!
- thaumasiotes 5y ago> Your DNA is the "cookbook", of what your body can make. > Gene expression is what your body happens to be making (and how much) from the cookbook Gene expression is what you are making right now, and how much, in a direct and fairly uninformative sense. But along with recipes for what you can make, your DNA obviously also encodes what you should make, and when, and how much, and how all of that should change in response to various things -- and gene expression is part of that too.