Human Epigenetics: How Science Works

by Ferdinand Molnar and Carsten Carlberg

The view "It's all in our genes and we cannot change it" developed in the past 150 years since Gregor Mendel's experiments with flowering pea plants. However, there is a special form of genetics, referred to as epigenetics, which does not involve any change of our genes but regulates how and when they are used. In the cell nucleus our genes are packed into chromatin, which is a complex of histone proteins and genomic DNA, representing the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030229068
• ISBN13: 9783030229061
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 153 Pages