Sentence examples for parental characters from inspiring English sources

But the parental characters are ridiculous and mostly unbelievable.

Henkes's parental characters — who furtively turn to books such as "The Inner Mouse, Vol. 1: Childhood Anxiety" — are the more realistic heirs to the unfailingly wise badgers of Hoban's "Frances" series, who outflanked their daughter with sitcom efficiency.

Her experiments with crossing plants of different flower colour affirmed the theory of Mendelian inheritance by demonstrating that inherited traits, rather than being a fusion of parental characters, are separate entities, transmitted to offspring in precise proportions.

Theoretically, a hybrid taxon included into a multi-locus phylogeny introduces homoplasy with clades that contain the hybrid parents, because hybrid taxa are supposed to be overall intermediate to the parental taxa since they contain a mosaic of parental characters [ 39].

First among these is how hereditary resources or inheritance processes affect the development of offspring so as to reliably reconstruct parental phenotypic characters; this question is shared more generally by developmental evolutionary biology (Evo-Devo) and Developmental Systems Theory.

The Reading Club forum encourages discussion, and it was pretty exciting to see students thoughtfully debate questions about social class and character; parental influence and character; and the difference between struggle and failure.

The parental role reverses.

This response, termed canalization, does not spontaneously occur following growth in the absence of NaCl, but is triggered by the level of perturbation in parental expression of reproductive characters.

Among the many errors that the TV series makes, perhaps the most glaring is its promotion of the books' parents from their status as emblems of parental inadequacy to that of characters in their own right.

Mr. Baitz himself, after all, created some pretty warped (and warping) parental types in earlier works, characters who testified to the juiciness of such roles for the right actors: the splenetic father played by Ron Rifkin in "The Substance of Fire," the fire-breathing mother embodied by Judith Ivey in "A Fair Country," the monumentally selfish artist of Donald Sutherland in "Ten Unknowns".

The two parental lines differed in various characters including morphological, physiological, and production traits.