Sentence examples for heritable characteristics from inspiring English sources

Botanical gardens constitute reservoirs of valuable heritable characteristics, potentially important in the breeding of new varieties of plants.

Drosophila chromosomes, especially the giant chromosomes found in the salivary glands of mature larvae, are used in studies involving heritable characteristics and the basis for gene action.

In biology, the "evolution" is defined as "a change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations".

There is persisting interest in the idea that taste preferences are heritable characteristics, but few twin studies have found evidence for a significant genetic component.

In particular, they make use of concepts such as heritable characteristics and fitness-based selection and have been applied with success in a number of diverse domains [15 17].

Indeed, genes converge on molecular co-expression pathways, which may be associated with heritable characteristics of patients and their siblings, called intermediate phenotypes, such as prefrontal anomalies and thalamic dysconnectivity during attentional control [2].

This discovery, also announced independently that year by Edmund Beecher Wilson of Columbia University, not only ended the long-standing debate over whether sex was a matter of heredity or embryonic environmental influence but also was the first firm link between a heritable characteristic and a particular chromosome.

The numerical density in nevi is a heritable characteristic with about 60% of the variation attributed to other additional genetic effects.

Newton [ 14], a pioneer in the study of the genetics of Biomphalaria glabrata, considered the susceptibility or resistance of a snail to infection to be a heritable characteristic.

We suggest these patterns are consistent with host conservatism among genetically similar and dissimilar hosts with heritable and non-heritable characteristics favouring host use.

If individuals share these groups of features in "a limited number of patterned combinations," then what is required for the constitution of a race is "necessarily one feature," for example, heritable physical characteristics "plus several others," for example, linked histories and a common site or origin (p. 101, note 29).