Usually means: Study of heritable gene expression changes.
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  1. epigenetics: Merriam-Webster
  2. epigenetics: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. epigenetics: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Epigenetics, epigenetics: Wordnik
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  6. epigenetics: Dictionary.com
  7. Epigenetics (journal), Epigenetics: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Epigenetics: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. epigenetics: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. epigenetics: Encyclopedia

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  1. epigenetics: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. Epigenetics: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  1. epigenetics: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (epigenetics)

noun:  (genetics) The study of the processes involved in the genetic development of an organism, especially the activation and deactivation of genes.
noun:  (genetics) The study of heritable changes caused by the activation and deactivation of genes without any change in DNA sequence.

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