Space travel is our right, our goal, and our ultimate defining trait.
In the setting of late penetrance of the ultimate disease trait (such as hypertension), as well as likely genetic heterogeneity, the "intermediate" phenotype (Lillie and O'Connor 2006; Shih and O'Connor 2008) strategy may be a useful approach in the search for disease predisposition loci.
It's one of America's ultimate cultural traits, hence Werner Herzog's thoughts about Los Angeles being the epitome of an "American" city largely uninfluenced by European culture or aesthetics.
Using transcriptomics, the present study aimed at identifying biomarkers of eight pork quality traits: ultimate pH, drip loss, lightness, redness, hue angle, intramuscular fat, shear force and tenderness, based on an experimental design inducing a high variability in MQ.
This misconception suggests that selection pressure or environmental conditions are the ultimate cause of new trait variation in a population rather than random mutation and genetic recombination through sexual reproduction.
The ultimate goal of quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping approaches is to gain a better understanding of biological mechanisms involved in these phenotypes to offer molecular tools for medical diagnosis or animal selection.
So, who better to run a country whose population seem to glorify fame, vanity, short cuts, and ego at every turn, than a guy who represents the ultimate in those admirable traits?
Dickins and Barton believe "ultimate accounts…potentially include…selectively neutral traits spread by genetic drift", whilst Gardner writes that it is "incorrect" to allow random drift to form the basis of ultimate explanations.
Kitcher is correct that biologists attempt to explain the traits of organisms in two ways: sometimes they cite the ultimate, or evolutionary, cause of a trait; other times they cite a structural feature of an organism with that trait.
Although positional candidacy is a requirement for genetic causality, our ultimate goal is to identify trait relevant genes, and therefore we include gene expression correlates.
