Sentence examples for types of inheritance from inspiring English sources

The equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment should not be extended to all types of inheritance (letter, Dec. 27).

There are two basic types of inheritance when it comes to modeling: structural and conceptual inheritance.

While it is only logical to raise the estate tax threshold to a modern-day level, repealing the tax for all types of inheritance ignores its valuable purpose.

The definition, she says, accommodates information stemming from environmental cues as well as from evolved signals, and calls for a comparison between information-transmission in different types of inheritance systems — the genetic, the epigenetic, the behavioral, and the cultural-symbolic.

In the current study, both types of inheritance were taken into account.

All types of inheritance are represented, including autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive, and X-linked.

Stratification on the basis of type of inheritance showed the prevalence among inherited widows ranging from a low of 54.8% in widows who were inherited by a relative primarily for companionship to a high of 73.8% in widows who were inherited by a non-relative primarily for sexual ritual.

In the remaining one-third of cases, a gene on another chromosome is responsible for the disease, and two copies of the defective gene, one from each parent, must be inherited for the disease to arise (a type of inheritance called autosomal recessive).

In this type of inheritance pattern, each offspring of an affected individual has a 50% risk of inheriting the mutant allele and therefore being affected with the disorder (see figure).

The type of inheritance that we call 'Mendelian', after Gregor Mendel, is 'particulate' rather than 'blending' offspring inherit discrete hereditary particles (genes) from their parents, which means that sexual reproduction does not diminish the heritable variation present in the population.

This type of inheritance has certain unique characteristics, which include the following: (1) There is no male-to-male (father-to-son) transmission, since sons will, by definition, inherit the Y rather than the X chromosome.