Human Heredity: Principles and Issues (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781305251052
Author: Michael Cummings
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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To explain: Whether PBDEs still affect children if they are completely removed from their environment.
Introduction: Epigenetics is the study of the ways in which the DNA and associated proteins produce altered gene expression due to their chemical modification. The chemical modification does not involve a change in the
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Human Heredity: Principles and Issues (MindTap Course List)
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