Epigenetics, meaning “above genetics”, looks at how our life experiences, choices, environments, and other factors affect our genes and how these different affects might be passed down to offspring throughout generations. Because the epigenetic information in an individual’s cells isn’t permanent, it has the ability to change. Most of a parents epigenetic information is stripped from an embryos genome but some information is still passed down. An epigenome won’t change a persons DNA but rather it will decide what genes are expressed in different cells and how much they will be expressed.
