Sentence examples for heritable characters from inspiring English sources

Grain shape and size, though heritable characters, are influenced by changes in environment, especially during grain filling.

As can be seen from the box plot of hippocampus weight, (Fig. 5) there is a significant effect of family (p<0.0001) on this phenotype, a phenomenon that we have observed for a variety of heritable characters including coat color (p<0.0001).

However, the heritable characters of HVP remain unclear.

For the purpose of phylogenetic analyses, a signal is an identifiable trace left by phylogeny in heritable characters, in our case, in genes.

Harrison [ 20] defined hybridization as "the interbreeding of individuals from two populations, or groups of populations, which are distinguishable on the basis of one or more heritable characters".

One key and consistent observation in support of selection on standing variants is the rapid and immediate response to selection observed for most (if not all) heritable characters in domestic and experimental populations [ 54].

Interpretations of zero-sum equivalence routinely omit to distinguish between the equal vital rates realized at the system carrying capacity approximated in this image (and most datasets), and the intrinsic vital rates that define the heritable character traits of each species.

This overexpression presents a strong heritable character since it is sustained over several passages without the addition of any cytokines or growth factors.

One possible approach might be to study whether the population distribution of a heritable phenotypic character differs from the neutral expectation or not [ 7, 15, 16].

One of the most striking cases of apparently heritable acquired characters was observed by Conrad Waddington, who observed that some phenotypic traits, induced in Drosophila pupae by heat shock treatment and then selected for a number of generations in the presence of heat shock, became heritable, seemingly showing that induced phenotypic traits could be inherited through the germ line.

However, at the time of de Vries, the genetic cause of mutations was not known, and he regarded any heritable changes of phenotypic characters as mutations.