Also proteins can bind to DNA and methylated DNA to modify the course of gene expression in daughter cells. Such chemical modifications to the DNA which modify gene transcription are examples of epigenetic changes in the DNA.
Thomas Jefferson was President when his Vice-President, Aaron Burr, shot Alexander Hamilton in a duel on July 11, 1804, in Weehawken, New Jersey. Hamilton didn't die during thâ¦e duel, but succumbed to his injuries the next day.
In a This Day in History video, learn that on July 11, 1804, Aaron Burr fatally wounded Alexander Hamilton in a duel.Burr was Thomas Jefferson's Vice President and Hamilton was a force behind the Constitution.hat happened next is agreed upon: Burr shot Hamilton in the stomach, and the bullet lodged next to his spine. Hamilton was taken back to New York, and he died the next afternoon. Few affairs of honor actually resulted in deaths, and the nation was outraged by the killing of a man as eminent as Alexander Hamilton.