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Can you elaborate on your parentheses more? Not sure why epigenetics is to genetics as build system is to C code. I was thinking more like genetics is the code

• HPsquared 2y ago
  Epigenetics is about regulating gene expression. That is, controlling which of the many genes in the organism's genome actually get "printed out" into actual proteins in a given situation). Every cell, after all, contains the entire DNA library of the organism, but not every cell needs all of those proteins, and they must not all simply be made into proteins constantly. It's a little bit like preprocessor directives ("if we're on x86, compile this bit; if we're on ARM, compile that bit"). Transcription and translation turns DNA into protein, in my analogy this is the compilation step.