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Adapted from NOVA scienceNOW: "Epigenetics." Third party materials courtesy of Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Jorge Bermejo Rodriguez, Kevin Eggan/Harvard Stem Cell Institute, MicroAngela/Tina Weatherby Carvalho, and Patricia and Conchi Garcia-Rama Pacheco.