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Epigenetics has two closely related meanings:

The study of the processes involved in the unfolding development of an organism. This includes phenomena such as X chromosome inactivation in mammalian females, and gene silencing within an organism.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Category:Epigenetics” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.