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How can epigenetics be used to integrate nature and nurture in genetics education?
Karlstad University, Faculty of Health, Science and Technology (starting 2013), Department of Environmental and Life Sciences (from 2013). (SMEER)ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8735-2102
2021 (English)In: Genetics education: Current challenges and possible solutions / [ed] Michal Haskel-Ittah ; Anat Yarden, Cham: Springer, 2021, 1st, p. 17-34Chapter in book (Refereed)
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This chapter advocates the incorporation of epigenetics in genetics teaching according to an integrated model bridging the apparent dichotomy between ‘nature’ and ‘nurture’, which lies at the heart of biology education. To what degree can we explain biological traits by organisms’ essential (inherent and biologically determined) features, or what do organisms learn and acquire through environmentally dictated development? This has often been presented, in both biological research and biology education, as an either/or question. However, recent advances in genetic research have shown that epigenetic concepts can provide a new mechanistic understanding of interactions between environmental and genetic factors, and thus of how the environment can affect organisms’ (including humans’) behavior and other biological characteristics. Thus, epigenetics can provide a teaching model that abolishes the nature versus nurture dichotomy, as well as possibilities for overcoming the well-established problem of genetics education promoting causal and deterministic understandings of genes and their functions.

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URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-89929DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-86051-6_2OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-89929DiVA, id: diva2:1660902
Available from: 2022-05-25 Created: 2022-05-25 Last updated: 2022-06-02Bibliographically approved

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