Sentence examples for processes of inheritance from inspiring English sources

The book is an excellent overview of human genetics because each genetic infirmity addressed by Avise occurs in fundamental structures and processes of inheritance and gene expression.

We expected that by establishing how evolution is based on tangible and uncontroversial processes of inheritance, students should develop a better understanding of how genetic data provide a record of successful reproduction and transmission of information across generations.

And if it turned out that the theory of natural selection could only be integrated with our new understanding of the processes of inheritance and development by a wholesale modification of its foundations, it might be best to see the new theory as a modified descendent of Darwinism, rather than Darwinism itself.

In contrast to monism and holism, the views discussed in this entry identify and classify various mechanisms and processes of inheritance, the types of hereditary information that are passed on by each, the function and interaction of the different systems, and the evolutionary consequences of these properties.

Because the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes are subject to different processes of inheritance, recombination, and selection it is important to use information from both genomes to comprehensively investigate evolutionary relationships [34], [35], [36].

Progress has been made toward a framework for understanding heritability when there is inheritance of nongenetic traits, but to date models remain very general with respect to the epigenetic processes of inheritance and the epigenetic effects on phenotype (Bonduriansky and Day 2009; Danchin and Wagner 2010; Danchin et al. 2011; Day and Bonduriansky 2011).

In the long historic process of inheritance, widowhood, gain and loss, by which the distribution of the ownership of capital is determined, there is no reason to suppose that the actual ownership of capital falls into the hands of those best able to administer it.

Is this a kind of neo-Lamarckian process of inheritance?

In this context the prime quantity of central importance to the actual statistical analysis-procedure is the process of inheritance of alleles.

Other studies have shown how people use 'genes' to gesture to a (frequently vaguely understood) process of inheritance or transmission that links the illness of one family member to other familial instances (for example, Lock et al, 2006; Everett, 2011).

Phylogenies inferred by cluster proteins have been used to assess the likelihood of two processes of cluster inheritance within ascomycota: vertical inheritance coupled with multiple cluster loss, and horizontal (lateral) transfer of entire clusters.