Epigenetic Differences In Our Life

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Angelic Peraga
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Epigenetics Trillions of cells are in a person's body that has a DNA with an identical sequence of nucleotide bases. They have this epigenome inside and it is a set of chemical switches looking like a beacon that has the ability to control the gene expression within a cell. It's like a second layer of information that tells genes how to act. By turning some genes on and leaving some genes off, turning some cell into brain cells, bone, or skin and sometimes it may also trigger unexpected differences. That may set identically tends from different parts before they were even born. (Simmons, 2008)
Researchers like Dr. Vardman Rakyan also believed that every individual change. Because of their different environments,
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It’s amazing how something happens really early on out, but only as a biological affects later on life. Even though we pass these genes from generations, we also pass our epigenetic information on what we did in our early life. Making it like your fingerprint of that interaction.
As I check and document using vitality compass on what I have been doing in my life for the past 25 years. Growing up I was the type of girl who goes to the church every Sunday, since I sing for the church. Right when I got into my teens, I have gone through so much stress on my adolescent life. At seventeen 17 I started to smoke due to peer pressure, I was unhealthy, and overweight. I didn’t do any activities throughout the day.
At the age of 18, I got a benign ovarian cancer which let me behind from school for a year. Right after I got my condition, my mother had a stroke and more responsibility was given to me. At the age of 20, my brother had his hydrocephalus due to an ear infection. It was the worst years of my life. Jumping into my early adulthood, I was prepared with more stress coming into my life, especially I just got petitioned by my father to go to

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