Question
Biology Question on body fluids and circulation
______ is the branch of genetics, which deals with heritable changes in gene activity that are not caused by changes in the DNA sequence.
A
(A) Molecular genetics
B
(B) Metagenics
C
(C) Archaeogenetics
D
(D) Epigenetics
Answer
(D) Epigenetics
Explanation
Solution
Explanation:
Epigenetics is the study of how your behaviors and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work. Unlike genetic changes, epigenetic changes are reversible and do not change your DNA sequence, but they can change how your body reads a DNA sequence.Hence, the correct option is (D).