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a. What is your epigenome (i.e. epigenetics)?
b. Does lifestyle affect your epigenome? Explain
-c. Does your epigenome change with age? Explain
d. What is epigenetic therapy? Is it working? Explain
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a) Epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in the gene expression (active versus inactive genes) that do not involve alterations to the underlying DNA - a change in phenotype without change in genotype which in turn affects how cells read the genes. 

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