What is epigenetic inheritance?
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: Epigenetic inheritance occurs when different conditions that may result in different phenotypes can be inherited without differences in the actual DNA sequence.
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____________________ are mutations involving the increase of the number of repeat sequences in
genes. Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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