Public Science Lectures 6/12/12 Epigenetics Revealed

Mary Gehring, Ph.D., Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There is much more to development and evolution than the gene. Dr. Gehring explains epigenetics and how this phenomena affects development. She also discusses the role of the modest plant Arabidopsis thaliana, which is to epigenetics what the fruit fly was to the study of genetics.