Epigenetics is the study of genes encoded in a DNA sequence of an organism. This can have an effect on some physiological traits along with physical traits in a human's lifetime. Many scientists have been very puzzled why this happens. The exact textbook term for Epigenetics is “change themselves”. Many scientists have noticed that many identical twins have the same genetic makeup but as they get old their personalities are different. Often twins are healthy throughout their lifetime, but epigenetics is known to have genes turn on and off. That means that each twin can have the same genes but one of the twins can get either a really bad disease such autism or cancer. Examples of this is in gene expression, which can be controlled…show more content… In Sweden, there was a study held of historical records that seem to show the lifespan of how some families grandchildren were affected by what their grandparents ate (Nova.com). Can these studies show us that, the things that our parents might have been exposed to affect us in our genes? Are we more likely to get risky diseases such as cancer or diabetes because of what our parents consumed before we were born? Might our experiences change our epigenetics and our epigenomes, can that put the fate of our offspring in danger. Epigenomes are known to be a “second” genome that may be accounted for many changes in our DNA (Nova.com). Some but not all researchers are convinced that us millennials are living our lives the way our guardians did (Nova.com). Some researchers also think that you should be able to take care of yourself and keep yourself as healthy as possible, so that your future offspring don’t face any complications or health issues in the future. Epigenetics inheritance goes against the idea that DNA code passes from parent to offspring. Which means that a parent's experiences throughout their lifetime gets passed down to their offspring in epigenetic tags and can be passed down to future generations. This is the transmission from cell to multicellular organism by dividing a multicellular
