Sentence examples for unit of inheritance from inspiring English sources

Prevailing theory suggests that mtDNA is maternally inherited, with mtDNA nucleoids the unit of inheritance.

The scientists took faecal samples from 124 Europeans and analysed the DNA they contained, using powerful "gene machines" that could quickly decipher the order of the genetic "letters" running along the length of each DNA molecule, the unit of inheritance.

As Darwin would have loved to have known, genes made of DNA are the basic unit of inheritance.

Surveying results from the biology of microbes and metagenomics, Dupré argues that phenomena of horizontal or lateral gene transfer as well as fundamental symbiotic dependencies between microbes and their embedding multicellular communities present a severe challenge to the traditional notion of the monogenomic biological individual (organism) as the focal unit of inheritance and selection.

This development has not only been promoted as a revolution in molecular biology, defining the post-genomic era (see Meloni and Testa 2014 for a discussion of the sociology of hype and expectation in this respect), but has led to yet another change in the concept of the gene, in so far as it can no longer be seen as the only unit of inheritance and selection and the primary cause in development.

Today, such difficulties have exploded, and they have come to challenge the very idea of a discrete and particulate unit of inheritance.

He observed that organisms (pea plants) inherit traits by way of discrete "units of inheritance".

The paper ended with the hypothesis that chromosomes carry the units of inheritance and that their behaviour during division of the chromosomes of sex cells (meiosis) is the physical basis of the Mendelian law of heredity.

1877 Utica, New York November 10, 1916 Kansas City, Kansas Walter Sutton, in full Walter Stanborough Sutton, also called Walter S. Sutton (born 1877, Utica, New York, U.S. died November 10, 1916, Kansas City, Kansas) U.S. geneticist who provided the first conclusive evidence that chromosomes carry the units of inheritance and occur in distinct pairs.

Genes are the standard units of inheritance discussed in biology.

But in languages, the units of inheritance (e.g., words) can be easily shared with almost anyone.