Epigenetics is the study of heritable alterations in gene expression caused by ____

a. mechanisms that do not alter any DNA sequence


b. the mutation of a single gene
c. translocations between alleles
d. environmental factors
e. replication and then improper repair of DNA coding mistakes


a

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