EpigeneticsStudies in animals have shown that changes in diet can alter the function of genes - known as epigenetic change.

一项针对动物的研究发现，饮食的变化能改变基因的功能——这种变化被称为表观遗传变化。

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Recently, it has been shown that germ-cells, too, are subject to epigenetic change, sometimes in response to environmental stimuli.

最近的研究显示，细菌的细胞同样受后天改变的影响，这些遗传变化有时是对外部环境刺激的反应。

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The process, known as DNA methylation, is one mechanism of epigenetic change, heritable change that does not alter the sequence of DNA itself.

该过程被成为DNA甲基化，是表观遗传变化的一种，属于不会改变DNA序列的可遗传变化。

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Recently, it has been shown that germ-cells, too, are subject to epigenetic change, sometimes in response to environmental stimuli.

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But what is new, and intriguing, is that they discovered, for the first time, evidence that a phenomenon called epigenetic change is at work.

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