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In Brief: Epigenetics

8/22/2013

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Histones & DNA
If genetics is the official language of life, epigenetics is the vernacular: knowing which words to use in a situation, how often to use them, and which words to leave out entirely.


Slightly less in brief:
The genome – the DNA that holds all the instructions for building an organism – doesn’t actually do anything.  Proteins do most of the work in a cell.  Proteins of all shapes and sizes, along with a few other types of molecule, are the cellular machinery. 

The genome is just a blueprint for this machinery.  Many short sections of the genome – the genes – describe how to build proteins.  Certain proteins read genes and make temporary copies, which other bits of cellular machinery then use to build new proteins.

So which genes get read?


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