Epigenetika
Epigenetika (English: epigenetics), di dalam biologi, adalah studi tentang perubahan fenotipe atau ekspresi genetika yang disebabkan oleh mekanisme selain perubahan sekuens DNA dasar. Epigenetika berasal dari bahasa Yunani, epi- yang berarti "di atas" atau "menutupi", dan -genetika. Tidak ada perubahan pada sekuens DNA dasar, melainkan faktor non genetika yang menyebabkan ekspresi gen organisme berubah.[2]
Charles Darwin
V. Geneticists studied human heredity as Mendelian inheritance, while eugenics movements sought to manage society, with a focus on social class in the United Kingdom, and on disability and ethnicity in the United States, leading to geneticists seeing this as impractical pseudoscience. A shift from voluntary arrangements to "negative" eugenics included compulsory sterilisation laws in the United States, copied by Nazi Germany as the basis for Nazi eugenics based on virulent racism and "racial hygiene". ( )