While exercise cannot change the DNA a person has, it certainly can have an effect upon what genes are turned on and off. Researchers have found that exercise has an epigenetic effect upon the DNA. Click here for the abstract of the research. Scientific American has a podcast about the same thing
AP Biology students can take this information and expand upon it based on what we learned in class. Biology students should think about how this can be used and what might occur with it in the future.
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