what is a heritable change that alters the expression of a gene without altering the DNA sequence of the gene ?

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what is a heritable change that alters the expression of a gene without altering the DNA sequence of the gene ?

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Gene expression can be defined as the process by which the information encoded in a gene is used to direct the assembly of a protein molecule. The cell reads the sequence of the gene in groups of three bases.

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