Sentence examples for heredity from from inspiring English sources

In a fairly concise survey, the authors chart the shifting interpretations of the concept of heredity from the early modern period through to the present.

In addition to drawing much of his information about heredity from studies of domesticated animals and plants, Darwin saw important parallels between the process of artificial selection by humans and natural selection by the environment.

As Jean Gayon has argued, Mendel's 1865 paper attacked heredity from a wholly new angle, interpreting it not as a measurable magnitude, as the biometrical school did at a later stage, but as "a certain level of organization," a "structure in a given generation to be expressed in the context of specific crosses".

Charles Darwin, while trying to devise a general theory of heredity from the observations of animal and plant breeders, discovered that domesticated mammals possess a distinctive and unusual suite of heritable traits not seen in their wild progenitors.

The size and angle of cranial base were inherited features, but the size of anterior cranial base showed the highest probability for heredity from mothers and fathers to sons while the posterior cranial base demonstrated higher inheritance from mothers to daughters.

The span of life, since it is determined by heredity, varies from one individual to another as do other genetically determined traits.

Later, the cytological basis of the gene-chromosome theory of heredity extended from about 1900 1944 and was initiated by the rediscovery of Gregor Mendel's (1822 1884) laws of plant heredity first published in 1866 in Experiments on Plant Hybridization and based on cultivated pea, Pisum sativum: this heralded the opening up of plant genetics.

In fact, many lean individuals with a diabetes heredity can from the point of view of their fat cell size be considered as obese.

In a multivariable analysis, we found large effects from heredity and no effect from the duration of breast feeding or the age at which milk or eggs were introduced, while protective effects from introducing fish before 9 months were found.

But of all considerations regarding entrepreneurial competence, it is most difficult to find out whether a bad qualification results from a lack of (learnable) pre-education or from heredity.

Our founders refused amonarchy whose power was derived from heredity.