In some plant species, chloroplast genes are thought to determine important characteristics like tolerance of cold.
Schlemm rhymes with phlegm — one of the four humors (along with black and yellow bile and blood) that in ancient times were thought to determine a person's health.
The program also documents the initial interviews with the judges, where first impressions are thought to determine which women will advance to the finals.
But the year that saw an unprecedented month-long heatwave in Russia will be followed by cooler global temperatures in 2011, say climate scientists monitoring sea temperatures in the Pacific that are thought to determine temperatures around the world.
Humour, also spelled Humor, (from Latin "liquid," or "fluid"), in early Western physiological theory, one of the four fluids of the body that were thought to determine a person's temperament and features.
But at the same time Jonson sought to embody in four of the main characters the four "humours" of medieval and Renaissance medicine choler, melancholy, phlegm, and blood which were thought to determine human physical and mental makeup.
This 1946 classic takes its cues from the directions on the three-part theme and four variations of a score Paul Hindemith wrote for Balanchine himself, directions that referred to the four humors or temperaments thought to determine personality in medieval times.
Writing in the journal, Current Biology, the authors of the two-part study said that although they found factors such as face symmetry, which has traditional been thought to determine attraction, important, it only made up 50 per cent of the picture.
In ordeal by combat, or ritual combat, the victor is said to win not by his own strength but because supernatural powers have intervened on the side of the right, as in the duel in the European Middle Ages in which the "judgment of God" was thought to determine the winner.
In turn, these variables are thought to determine how species are distributed across landscapes.
Such factors are thought to determine the minimum size of forest patches birds need.
