Sentence examples for defective offspring from inspiring English sources

The defective offspring reproduce slower than their ancestors.

He supported her proposed sterilization as a "potential parent of socially inadequate or defective offspring".

Medical geneticists can use the Hardy-Weinberg law to calculate the probability of human matings that may result in defective offspring.

Hallucinogenic drugs, such as LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), are suspected of damaging chromosomes, and their use could result in defective offspring.

Fertility specialists fear that using IVF techniques like ROSI to implant such immature sperm in human embryos would contribute to genetically defective offspring.

In contrast, PO females mated to BW males (PO×BW) produce overgrown and severely defective offspring.

Klekowski (1988a) states that mutational load in long-lived plants is expected to result in 'reproductive cycles that enhance the loss of defective gametophytes, gametes and offspring' because purging of load will be most efficient if it occurs via elimination of zygotes and young seeds.

To prohibit two people from having sex because their offspring may be "defective" or "inferior" is to adopt the standpoint of a eugenicist.

To determine whether lactation was defective in the HT7KO mothers, WT offspring were cross-fostered onto either WT or HT7KO mothers on day one after birth.

Warkany and his associates found that feeding defective diets to normal breeding rats produced offspring with skeletal defects.

Genetic analysis determined that the normal offspring had somehow replaced the defective gene in their DNA.