Sentence examples for for heredity from inspiring English sources

Genetics arose out of the identification of genes, the fundamental units responsible for heredity.

The implications of Flemming's work for heredity were not fully appreciated until the recognition of Gregor Mendel's principles of heredity 20 years later.

French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck invoked the idea of "the inheritance of acquired characters," not as an explanation for heredity but as a model for evolution.

In the 50 years since Dr. James D. Watson and Dr. Francis Crick unraveled the twisted-ladder structure of the molecule responsible for heredity, DNA-based technology has become part of the treatment and diagnosis of disease, the food we eat and the search for criminals and deadbeat dads.

A case in point happened in 1953, when Francis Crick, a graduate student at Cambridge University, and Dr. James D. Watson, a young biochemist, published a short paper in the journal Nature proposing that DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, the molecule seemingly responsible for heredity, had a double helix structure.

In eukaryotes, chromatin is essential for heredity.

Between 1910 and 1915, the pioneering American geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan worked on Drosophila melanogaster in his renowned Fly Room at Columbia University and showed that genes provide the basis for chromosomal heredity, for which he won a Nobel prize.

"There was not sufficient knowledge of the laws of heredity for adequate rules for improving racial stocks to be laid down, but it was known that mental defects were inherited.

Subjects from this study were used in the most powered GWAS on AMD reported to date and is an appropriate dataset for the present investigation, given the clearly established role of heredity for this disease.

A total of 545 journals (153 for medicine general and internal, 156 for genetics and heredity, 108 for pediatrics, and 128 for psychiatry) were initially selected for study.

Instructions for authors were reviewed for 491 academic journals (132 for medicine general and internal, 147 for genetics and heredity, 100 for pediatrics, and 112 for psychiatry).