Traits inherited through one inheritance system can provide scaffolding for other inheritance systems.
This was a byproduct of Islam's egalitarian inheritance system, which aimed to spread wealth.
Question arises if epigenetics provides just a set of environment dependent instructions, or whether it is integral part of an inheritance system.
In the latter, the epigenome is conceptually closer to the (molecular) phenotype (i.e. product of the genotype) than to an element of the inheritance system itself.
In addition, if DNA methylation is part of the inheritance system then heritable phenotypic diversity can be produced by DNA methylation changes without changes in the DNA sequence.
But population growth and a land inheritance system that divided once-broad farmlands into ever-diminishing parcels have forced most Amish to find new ways to make a living.
Richard is a poor king, and, in an inheritance system that believes God endorses the descent of the crown from eldest son to eldest son, there is no acceptable escape from an inadequate ruler.
In this concept, genetic information (the genotype) is only one of many elements that as part of an inheritance system providing heritable information, that the environment will shape into a phenotype.
We conclude that the gene body DNA methylation codes have universality similar to the universality of the genetic code and should consequently be considered as part of the inheritance system.
These findings are in concordance with the idea that DNA methylation in gene bodies (i) uses three types of universal codes (low, high and mosaic)), and (ii) that it is an element of the inheritance system and not a molecular phenotype that results from genotype × environment interaction.
The symbolic inheritance system shares some properties with the genetic inheritance system, notably modularity, unlimited variability, the use of coded information, and the capacity to transmit latent information.
