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Re:Poverty leaves a mark on our genes by mehrdadn on Sunday June 16, 2019 @06:29PM (#20198368)
Confused, are we looking at the same edition? I don't see an explicit mention in the ToC [1], and Chapter 9 is "Cellular Respiration: Harvesting Chemical Energy"... are you saying that's where they mention epigenetics?

[1] https://www.pearson.ch/HigherEducation/BenjaminCummings/EAN/...

Re:Poverty leaves a mark on our genes by arkades on Sunday June 16, 2019 @06:36PM (#20198409)
Re:Poverty leaves a mark on our genes by mehrdadn on Sunday June 16, 2019 @06:42PM (#20198436)
Yeah you're looking at the wrong book. That's copyrighted 2019, not 2004. And not sure what "7e" means (doesn't seem to be the same as "7th edition") but it's Campbell Essential Biology, not Campbell Biology.
Re:Poverty leaves a mark on our genes by arkades on Sunday June 16, 2019 @07:26PM (#20198594)
So, the edition you’re linking, you’ll likely find epigenetics in ch21, genetic basis of development. That’s usually where the older books discussed methylation and acetylation.
Re:Poverty leaves a mark on our genes by mehrdadn on Sunday June 16, 2019 @07:36PM (#20198632)
Yeah, I've been trying to dig something up. Here's all there is in the 8th edition -- like just 3 sentences: https://books.google.com/books?id=5nZlDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA358&lpg=...
Re:Poverty leaves a mark on our genes by arkades on Sunday June 16, 2019 @07:48PM (#20198671)
They didn’t generally refer to it explicitly as epigenetics - they tended to cover the exact mechanisms. Check out pg 358’s dedicated subsection to methylation, for example. The word epigenetics won’t be mentioned, but it’s one of the classic epigenetic mechanisms.
Re:Poverty leaves a mark on our genes by mehrdadn on Monday June 17, 2019 @01:20AM (#20200132)
I'm not sure if I understand that section correctly, but it sounds like it's talking not about inheritance across organisms, but about replication within an organism?
Re:Poverty leaves a mark on our genes by arkades on Monday June 17, 2019 @09:46AM (#20202853)
Methylation and acetylation of sex chromosomes is inherited. In somatic tissues it affects downstream development; in gonads, it becomes a heritable trait.