DNA can’t explain all inherited traits, epigenetics can!

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Epigenetics

This is the reason why I call engineered crops or obsession with gene-detection as pseudo science.

Genes do not control any life form. Epigenetics do. Within cell histone protein to far distant butterfly flying in the garden, all play role in our actions and reactions.

 


Reference


http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/2015/dna-020415

We’ve shown without doubt that changes in the histone spools that make up chromosomes can be copied and passed through generations. Our finding settles the idea that inherited traits can be epigenetic, meaning that they are not solely down to changes in a gene’s DNA.

Professor Robin AllshireSchool of Biological Sciences

Restricted epigenetic inheritance of H3K9 methylation

Inheritance of a covalent histone modification

Genomic DNA is the repository of all genetic information and is packaged into chromatin. Chromatin is also a repository of regulatory information in the form of covalent marks added to the histones that package the DNA. These marks can determine tissue- and organ-specific gene expression patterns, which must be transmitted to daughter cells to maintain their identity. Ragunathan et al. and Audergon et al. show that in fission yeast, a chromatin mark, like genetic information, can be inherited across many cell generations. The mark can be inherited independently of DNA sequence, DNA methylation, or RNA interference. Thus, histone marks constitute true epigenetic information.

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