Saturday, March 31, 2007
EPIGENETICS
Biological information
Readers interested in epigenetics should, for sure, read the two following texts, one called A Toxic Hand-Me-Down and the other called Epigenetics. The idea presented there is that biological information can be altered by toxic material and can trigger changes in phenotypic appearance of living creatures.
There is also evidence that this change of causes and effects may work the other way round. That means that some kind of behavior is “translated” as biological information, then stored in DNA, and then influencing the phenotypic appearance of the individual. This was observed by a C. G. Weaver and his team and published in his paper called Epigenetic programming by maternal behavior.
Readers interested in epigenetics should, for sure, read the two following texts, one called A Toxic Hand-Me-Down and the other called Epigenetics. The idea presented there is that biological information can be altered by toxic material and can trigger changes in phenotypic appearance of living creatures.
There is also evidence that this change of causes and effects may work the other way round. That means that some kind of behavior is “translated” as biological information, then stored in DNA, and then influencing the phenotypic appearance of the individual. This was observed by a C. G. Weaver and his team and published in his paper called Epigenetic programming by maternal behavior.
# posted by Dalibor @ 4:19 AM 
