What Is Epigenetics?

The term epigenetics most commonly refers to an inherited change among active and inactive genes that does not implicate changes to the underlying DNA sequence, which in other words comprises of a change in phenotype without a change in genotype. Epigenetics is a natural change that occurs within our bodies. Epigenetics can also be influenced by several elements such as: aging, the environment or lifestyle that we are exposed to, and/or by any existing disease.
Epigenetics started as a wide-ranging research that’s primary focus was of combining genetics with developmental biology by several scientists including Conrad H. Waddington and Ernst Hadorn during the mid-twentieth century. The word epigenetics, which was created by Waddington in 1942,