Understanding the structures provides clues to their functions, interactions between the molecular parts and how certain desired traits are expressed.
This obsession with the special boss leads to the second approach to leadership analysis that is important to avoid - the desired traits, or personality characteristics, of a leader.
Genetic scientists at corporations like Monsanto splice genes from one organism into the DNA of another in order to produce certain desired traits in the offspring.
In his book Quirkology: How We Discover the Big Truths in Small Things, psychologist Richard Wiseman finds that a 70/30 divide between personal information and desired traits from a partner generates the most responses from an internet dating profile.
Correction: September 4, 2003, Thursday An article in Science Times on Aug. 19 about breeding dogs for desired traits misstated the name of the journal that published research about a large survey of dog behavior.
The grower has to plant a thousand seedlings, wait three years for them to mature, and then select the few progeny that have the desired traits.
While crossbreeding could produce size and power, it also promoted instability and was best abandoned as soon as the desired traits were "fixed".
Another concern associated with gene therapy is that it represents a form of eugenics, which aims to improve future generations through the selection of desired traits.
Each name on Deng's list is followed by the client's age (ranging from 22 to 78), along with height, education, employment and desired traits in a partner.
For these and other reasons, horticulturists resort to asexual propagation i.e., the division or separation and indefinite subdivision of the original plant having the desired traits.
In a great number of cultivated species, seedlings vary so much that the desired traits are found in only a small proportion.
