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Could Psionic/Chi/Mana energy/potential be passed from one generation to the next through DNA? Before you reply to this I probably should talk a little about Epigenetics, the study and concept of changes to how genes are expressed, as opposed to changes in the genes themselves.

As it turns out your DNA and hormones aren't the only thing in charge of making changes to your body as you develope, there are two kinds of proteins that attach to your DNA in their own individual ways.

One attaches itself to different parts of the sugars that keep the genetics bases in place, acting as an off switch when attached so when that particular part of the DNA strand is about to be read by a ribosome, said ribosome will skip over that portion of the strand, thus not reading the code in that section of the strand (for you computer whizzes out there a good analogy is those double forward slashes ("//") that makes it do that part of the program does not get put into action.)

The second type of protein acts in a different manner, this second protein wraps the DNA strand around itself and act more over like one of those analog knob on the radio, the more it tightens a particular part of the DNA strand around itself, the less that part of the code becomes expressed, it also works in reverse, meaning the less it tightens a particular gene around itself, the more the gene becomes expressed.

These Epigenetic changes to the code are caused by a few things such as, what level of exercise you do and how much energy you expend, what you diet consists of, what medications you take (your behavior in general,) and how hot or cold, wet or dry, and what the level of air quality is.

While most epigenetic information gets erased when genes are being passed down to the next generation (giggity :), there are some epigenetic tags that get passed down to the next generation thus causing a particular habit (which can be either a good or bad habit,) or talent to be passed down from parent to child.

Now all this got me thinking, could psionics be passed down from parent to child through epigenetics, or atleast could a small portion of talent be passed down?

For more information on epigenetics just follow the link or just search "epigenetics" yourself.

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