To: GodGunsGuts
Environment?
Heredity isn’t everything.
2 posted on
02/18/2009 8:52:13 PM PST by
lightman
(Adjutorium nostrum (+) in nomine Domini.)
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Don’t have my ping list handy. Any of you guys happen to have a ping list handy?
All the best—GGG
To: GodGunsGuts; syriacus
I work in a cancer research lab and we do a lot of epigenetics work! Thanks for posting this it is a good, informative read!
Ping
5 posted on
02/18/2009 8:54:51 PM PST by
Valkyrie927
("This is the way the world ends; not with a bang but a whimper." -TS Elliot)
To: GodGunsGuts; lightman
6 posted on
02/18/2009 8:56:03 PM PST by
krb
(Obama is a miserable failure.)
To: GodGunsGuts
As you get older, who you are gets written on your face.
9 posted on
02/18/2009 8:58:22 PM PST by
GOPJ
(The closer global warming is exposed as hoax, the more hysterical it's proponents become...)
To: GodGunsGuts
Epigenetics. Every cell in your body has the same DNA blueprint, but there are vast differences between a neuron and a cardiac muscle cell and a white blood cell etc. The differences are explained in part by which of the genes in the DNA blueprint are read and expressed in these different cell types. Chemical modifications of DNA and of the proteins that interact with DNA are major determinants of which genes are read and expressed, and these chemical modifications can be altered/affected by environmental exposures.
To: GodGunsGuts
(ever wonder why genetic twins look progressively different over time?) Because creationism predicted they would.
12 posted on
02/18/2009 9:04:05 PM PST by
Toddsterpatriot
(Havoc has been back since September. Or was it April?)
To: GodGunsGuts
Lots of reasons... environmental stresses (weather, sun exposure, work activity), physiological stresses (sickness, exposure to toxins, epigenetics, etc.
15 posted on
02/18/2009 9:12:30 PM PST by
Kirkwood
To: GodGunsGuts
18 posted on
02/18/2009 9:23:42 PM PST by
TASMANIANRED
(TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
To: GodGunsGuts
This raises the question: if two people can have identical DNA sequences and yet be so different I wouldn't describe identical twins as "so different."
It's lost on me why the author thinks it is news that a variety of factors affect gene expression.
24 posted on
02/18/2009 9:48:18 PM PST by
freespirited
(Help save humanity. Cure the RINOvirus.)
To: GodGunsGuts
Funny thing, with epigenetics, maybe Lamarckianism looks to be vindicated in a very limited, highly qualified way, after all.
And another funny thing, there was a lot of tasty scientific goodness in that article without much fundamentalist preaching! I sure hope the good people at CMI are feeling well.
27 posted on
02/18/2009 10:08:51 PM PST by
Mogwai
(You say "far right" like that's a bad thing, Arlen!)
To: GodGunsGuts
Don't forget. I get to wear the watch on Thanksgiving.
32 posted on
02/18/2009 10:50:28 PM PST by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life ;o)
To: GodGunsGuts
Simply explained with creationism.
42 posted on
02/18/2009 11:34:13 PM PST by
Darwin Fish
(God invented evolution. Man invented religeon.)
To: GodGunsGuts
Grab a copy of the "Genotype Diet" by Peter D'Adamo. His prior books aim dietary "avoids" and "recommended" foods based on blood type. Blood type mirror the antigenic type of all cells in the body. It turns out that his approach was good, but has been greatly improved. The missing link is "epigenetics". The blood type is fixed by genetics, but many other characteristics are sensitive to the developing environment between fertilization and birth. Hormone and nutritional impacts from the mother's body are reflected in the development of the baby. The reason fingerprints are unique is that they are a running "log" of impacts caused by hormones and nutritional input. The ratio of upper leg to lower leg, leg to torso, relative finger lengths (ring finger vs index finger), left/right symmetry, jaw shape and tooth characteristics. D'Adamo roughly categorizes 6 general "genotypes". Hunter, Explorer, Teacher, Gatherer, Warrior and Nomad. You can quickly shuffle into part of the description by blood type. From that point, you have to resort to measuring body characteristics to whittle down to the "correct" genotype. Once determined, there are food and exercise recommendations consistent with the identified genotype.
The upshot is that epigenetics plays a big part in shaping the individual beyond the initial genetic constitution.
49 posted on
02/18/2009 11:51:42 PM PST by
Myrddin
To: GodGunsGuts
Evolution and Christianity are perfectly compatible.
61 posted on
02/19/2009 6:33:49 AM PST by
Buck W.
(The President of the United States IS named Schickelgruber...)
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To: GodGunsGuts
71 posted on
02/19/2009 9:31:27 AM PST by
Caramelgal
(This tagline is currently on strike, waiting for my bail out. I want me some tagline porkulus!)
To: GodGunsGuts
87 posted on
02/19/2009 12:33:06 PM PST by
Popman
(One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress - John Adams)
To: GodGunsGuts
Mutations happen ... and identical organisms will shortly evolve into not so identical beings.
95 posted on
02/19/2009 2:59:30 PM PST by
OldNavyVet
(Individual freedom is measurable ... If taxes take all you earn, you are a slave.)
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