Sentence examples for genetic definition of from inspiring English sources
A genetic definition of life therefore would be a system capable of evolution by natural selection.
The judge recognised the ramifications of a genetic definition of marriage.
Fundamental to the genetic definition of life then seems to be the notion that a certain level of complexity cannot be achieved without natural selection.
But the fact that such a machine would satisfy the genetic definition of life is not an argument against such a definition; in fact, if the building blocks were simple enough, the machine would have the capability of evolving into very complex systems that would probably have all the other properties attributed to living systems.
Although we criticized the genetic "definition" of heritability as being derived and not general; it is useful for simple genetic models like the one just described.
The more demanding population genetic definition of heritability is that a heritable trait T is one where variation in T can be accounted for primarily by variation in genes as opposed to variation in the environment (see also the entry on heritability).
Now, instead of the biological meaninglessness of race, headlines announce the many uses of genetic definitions of race, from locating disease genes to determining one's ancestry.
Multiple underlying etiologies for PCOS [13], different ovarian stimulation protocols and variability in genetic definitions of study populations easily explain such discrepancies.
Many biologists, particularly 'whole organism' biologists, are not convinced, and thus reject both the population-genetic definition of evolution and the primacy traditionally accorded to population genetics within evolutionary biology (Pigliucci 2008).
Unfortunately many people think that some sort of genetic definition has supplanted this basic concept of heritability.
Like recombination, gene conversion has a genetic definition: when the products of meiosis reveal allele frequencies that are inconsistent with Mendel's rules, one allele is said to be converted to another.
