这意味着研究人员正受着把环境引起的通过这种表观修饰转变为行为的效应和由于遗传引起的行为的效应搞混的困扰。
That means environmentally induced effects that are translated into action by this sort of epigenesis might be being confused by researchers with inherited ones.
一个叫做表观修饰(表观遗传学)的过程——它关闭了那些对环境刺激起反应的基因——可能使得他们起作用的基因组和实际的基因组不一致。
A process called epigenesis, which shuts down genes in response to environmental prompts, may make their effective genomes different from their actual ones.
Chong说，她不知道动物实验中由酒精导致的表观遗传修饰是否会传递给下一代，她希望能在未来的研究中有所发现。
Chong says she doesn't know whether epigenetic modifications due to alcohol are passed onto the next generation of mice, but she hopes to find out in upcoming studies.
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