Sentence examples for transmission trait from inspiring English sources

If the two clones differ in a transmission trait (sex ratio) that is apparently sensitive to host anaemia, they may be expected to vary in other, less evident traits implicated in transmission.

Accordingly, climate change would be expected to alter certain parasite transmission traits.

Such variation in transmission traits would result in between-clone variability in the anaemia/transmission relationship.

Thus transmission traits (e.g. gametocyte density and sex ratio) are highly susceptible to environmental changes and may therefore not conform to the simple trade-off between transmission and mortality.

Of course, babies are born different and biological transmission of traits does occur – it's just not genetic.

DNA was identified during the second world war, but its role in the replication of life and the transmission of traits was not known until 1953.

At Balfour, Wheldale worked with British biologist William Bateson, who in 1900 had rediscovered a paper on plant hybrids written by Gregor Mendel and was working to understand the transmission of traits in plants.

Cultural transmission of traits is often contrasted with biological transmission.

The basic theory associated with classical genetics provided explanations of the transmission of traits from parents to offspring.

Population geneticists study the patterns of transmission of traits in populations from one generation to the next.

Discussions of heredity invite confusions between mechanisms responsible for individual development and mechanisms responsible for the transmission of traits from one generation to the next.