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Epigenetics
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About this study
“Epigenetics” is a free, 4-lesson study at novice, created with soclever, a personal AI teacher. Each lesson takes a few minutes and ends with a check-in question; finish the curriculum and you can take a certificate test to earn a diploma. Starting is free once you sign in — or generate your own study on any topic.
What you'll learn
- DNA, Genes, and Traits. Your eye color, height, and whether you can roll your tongue—these come from your parents. The instruction set that makes this happen lives in your cells, in a molecule called…
- What Epigenetics Means. You inherited your genes from your parents, but why don't you look exactly like them? And more puzzling: why do identical twins — who share the same DNA — sometimes end up with…
- DNA Methylation and Gene Silencing. Your cells contain all your DNA, yet they don't use all of it all the time. A liver cell doesn't need to read the instructions for making insulin the way a pancreas cell does.…
Questions this study answers
- Can you explain in your own words what a gene is and how it differs from DNA?
- If you have a gene for a certain trait but a chemical tag switches it off, does that change the DNA sequence itself?
- What happens to a gene when a methyl group attaches to it, and why is it important that the DNA sequence itself doesn't change?
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