At about the same time in 1940s when Erwin Schrdinger published his famous little book What Is Life, which sparked the birth of molecular biology, the term epigenetics was coined by the English biologist Conrad Wadd...At about the same time in 1940s when Erwin Schrdinger published his famous little book What Is Life, which sparked the birth of molecular biology, the term epigenetics was coined by the English biologist Conrad Waddington. The concept of epi-inheritance can be traced back to French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s idea of "inheritance展开更多
文摘At about the same time in 1940s when Erwin Schrdinger published his famous little book What Is Life, which sparked the birth of molecular biology, the term epigenetics was coined by the English biologist Conrad Waddington. The concept of epi-inheritance can be traced back to French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s idea of "inheritance