Mutation and its role in evolution: A beginners guide

What is an example of a non-genetic mutation?

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Although I could glean a bit from those abstracts, can you layman them up a bit for us. It sounds like there are aspects of heredity that are non-genetic? What then is a mutation in that context? I don't want to distract too much from the main topic, this just seemed interesting.

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Somehow I replied with a message 8 but it is not showing up.I'll repeat my reply.Ok. Lets see if I can distill this into something I can understand.It is the action of these enzymes is what causes the change in phenotype?
The enzymes or creation of them is somehow heritable yet not genetic?
Is a "mutation" in this sense have to do with the differential presence of the enzymes or what they do the phenotype?Do those questions even make sense?Edited by Jazzns, : No reason given.

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Of course, biblical creationists are committed to belief in God's written Word, the Bible, which forbids bearing false witness; --AIG (lest they forget)

Thanks for clearing that up. I think I understand it now. So really then we can just talk about genetic mutation since the source of the enzymes are genetic. Even in a round about way these mutations are genetic, just second hand.

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Of course, biblical creationists are committed to belief in God's written Word, the Bible, which forbids bearing false witness; --AIG (lest they forget)

I am not fixated on everything being genetic. I just never knew that there was something other than genetic mutations and I am curious to understand it. I am just trying to learn. =)I based my comments on this quote from Aegist. I am having a hard time trying to keep track of all this new terminology and I assumed that methyltransferases is the agent that is "stopping the expression" which is the phrase that is used.Aegist's comment made it seem that this agent is made from the DNA, I still don't know how else to interpret that comment. I made the connection.Some DNA creates methyltransferases
methyltransferases blocks other DNASo therefore the original "Some DNA" is actually the source of this mutation. Then if that DNA was altered, the methyltransferases would change and the "other DNA" could be un-blocked.That was my impression. It seems that my impression is somehow wrong. I am just curious to understand how this works. We can drop this if it is getting to far OT.I don't know if these questions even make any sense but they would now be:Where does the methyltransferases come from?
If not DNA, how then is the methyltransferases heritable?

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Of course, biblical creationists are committed to belief in God's written Word, the Bible, which forbids bearing false witness; --AIG (lest they forget)

I guess that is where I am getting confused. How is it heritable? If it is hereditary, how can it be reversed?

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Of course, biblical creationists are committed to belief in God's written Word, the Bible, which forbids bearing false witness; --AIG (lest they forget)