Any insect unlucky enough to land on the mouth-like leaves of an Australian pitcher plant will meet a grisly end. The plant's prey is drawn into a vessel-like ‘pitcher’ organ where a specialized cocktail of enzymes digests the victim.

Now, by studying the pitcher plant's genome—and comparing its insect-eating fluids to those of other carnivorous plants—researchers have found that meat-eating plants the world over have hit on the same deadly molecular recipe, even though they are separated by millions of years of evolution.

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Chromatin can be altered in a number of ways, such as histone modification and DNA methylation. When are such alterations consid

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Epigenetic changes are those which do not involve alterations in the DNA sequence. These are caused due to interaction of the genome with the environment.

<h3>When are alterations epigenetic?</h3>

Epigenetic modifications or tags include DNA methylation and histone modification.
These changes alter DNA accessibility and chromatin structure thus regulating gene expression.
These are the reversible, heritable changes which do not change your DNA sequence, but they can change how your body reads a DNA sequence.
These are necessary for the normal development of organisms.
Stable, long-term epigenetic modifications involve DNA methylation.
Flexible, short-term changes involve histone modifications, such as methylation and acetylation.

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