Timeline for Short-term Lamarckism in asexual single cell organisms
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| Nov 1, 2012 at 12:23 | vote | accept | Artem Kaznatcheev | ||
| Oct 23, 2012 at 3:21 | comment | added | Bitwise | Just to clarify: The most well-known examples of epigenetics are chromatin (DNA/histone) modifications, but there are several other mechanisms that can pass hereditary information, often along several generations. Any such mechanism is considered epigenetic. Passing protein/RNA is one such mechanism and it is certainly being studied by epigenetics researchers. | |
| Oct 23, 2012 at 3:17 | history | edited | Bitwise | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
passing of RNA/proteins *is* epigenetics under most definitions - any hereditary information that is passed not by DNA sequence is epigenetic. It is also specifically mentioned in several places as an epigenetic mechanism (for example in the wiki article).
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| Oct 23, 2012 at 0:18 | history | edited | terdon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
The passing of protein and RNA moieties to the daughter cell is not epigenetics
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| Oct 22, 2012 at 23:57 | history | edited | Bitwise | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 22, 2012 at 23:52 | history | answered | Bitwise | CC BY-SA 3.0 |