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epigenetics
<study> The study of mechanisms involved in the production of phenotypic complexity in morphogenesis.

According to the epigenetic view of differentiation, the cell makes a series of choices (some of which may have no obvious phonotypic expression and are spoken of as determination events) that lead to the eventual differentiated state. Thus, selective gene repression or derepression at an early stage in differentiation will have a wide ranging consequence in restricting the possible fate of the cell.