To build an intuition about how genes code for an organism, one may visualize that DNA is an operating system within each cell, which can only divide, differentiate, regulate or die. Individual genes can be thought of as rules for a cellular automaton on an emergent 3D lattice.
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Epigenetic tags can be inherited
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Yes, I expect that you can smuggle a couple handful of meaningful bits into egg and sperm, but most intergenerational genetic modulation should happen in utero?
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