Genetics: A Conceptual Approach
Genetics: A Conceptual Approach
6th Edition
ISBN: 9781319050962
Author: Benjamin A. Pierce
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
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Chapter 21.3, Problem 5TPSQ
Summary Introduction

To determine:

The difference in the brain’s chromatin structure of the individual who died due to the famine during Dutch Hunger Winter.

Introduction:

Dutch Hunger Winter is the extreme starvation due to the shortage of the food  in the Dutch country (Netherlands) during the end of World War II. The famine started in the October 1944 and ended in April 1945. Due to this terrible starvation, thousands of people died. This scarcity of food in Dutch people provides a natural experiment for analyzing the effects of famine on human.

Summary Introduction

To explain:

What do the mouse studies of cognition and epigenetic effects suggests.

Introduction:

Epigenetic effects are the effects due to the heritable changes in the gene function and are not the result of differences in the nucleotide sequence. Cognition is the process of understanding, knowing, learning and making a perception about things.

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