Sentences with phrase «not heredity»

Because these children share family environment but not heredity, their correlation directly estimates the importance of shared family environment.

Family environment, not heredity, accounts for family resemblances in food preferences and attitudes: a twin study.

A study of twins led by Petter Brodin, Karolinska Institutet / SciLifeLab, shows that our environment, not our heredity, plays the starring role in determining the state of our immune system, the body's primary defense against disease.

For many years, most evidence suggested that an environmental factor, not heredity, is responsible for Parkinson's, in which a set of brain neurons that make the neurotransmitter dopamine gradually die off.

Not heredity but corporate personality explains Yahweh's far - flung punishments upon even the great - grandchildren of his enemies; it was the whole tribe that sinned in any member's sin and it was the whole tribe that suffered.

Not exact matches

Darwin didn't know about Mendelian Genetics yet, never mind DNA (Mendel was a Christian friar and a meticulous scientist), and recognized that the lack of rules of heredity was a gap in his theory.

The Imamate is determined by elections, not by heredity.

That some people may be biologically vulnerable to alcohol addiction has not been proven; in fact, there is no evidence that heredity places a person at greater risk of becoming a heavy drinker than family environment, character, beliefs and conduct.

«Our texts say not a word about what it means to be a good person or to serve God's will in these extraordinary situations,» concludes critic Ruth Schwartz Cowan in her book Heredity and Hope: The Case for Genetic Screening (Harvard University Press).

For Man, by the act of «noospherically» concentrating himself upon himself, not only becomes reflectively aware of the ontological current on which he is borne, but also gains control of certain of the springs of energy which dictate this advance: above all, collective springs, in so far as he consciously realizes the value, biological efficiency and creative nature of social organization; but also individual springs m as much as, through the collective work of science, he feels himself to be on the verge of acquiring the power of physicochemical control of the operations of heredity and morphogenesis in the depths of his own being.

The Carnegie and all the other major foundations that began modern philanthropy not only thought heredity important, they were, writes William Schambra in The New Atlantis, eugenicists when eugenicism was cool.

The geneticists, however, were not satisfied with merely enunciating laws of heredity.

But the heredity of our own children is not without blemish.»

Mendel's experiments with peas led him to realise that heredity in sexual reproduction works by the mixing of separate factors, not by the blending of inherited characters.

6 Most of that DNA resides not in the cell nuclei, which control heredity, but in our mitochondria, the organelles (units within cells) that generate metabolic energy.

After the fraud was exposed, Jensen and Eysenck claimed it did not matter too much because many other results backed the role of heredity.

But others point out that the code focuses on past transgressions, and doesn't refer to recent efforts to respect and involve communities, such as guidelines for genomics work on vulnerable populations prepared in 2014 by the Human Heredity and Health in Africa program.

Drugs exist for the treatment of symptoms — pain relievers, for instance — but not for the condition itself, which can be caused by chemotherapy, diabetes, traumatic injury, heredity and other conditions.

With the help of the few books I found on heredity in our small town library (pre-internet), I composed an essay on basic Mendelian inheritance, in which I discussed why some children in a family develop a disease and others do not.

Another common theme identified in the analysis revealed that students did not fully understand concepts related to heredity and patterns of inheritance (14 %); these essays reflected studentsâ $ ™ belief that single genes are the cause of traits and inherited diseases.

If those materials do nt reveal anything useful, ask for a pathology or autopsy report from the hospital where your relative died, says Marc Brand, MD, surgical director of the Sandra Rosenberg Registry for Heredity and Familial Colon Cancer at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.

However, she claims some of the information isn't concrete and says when it comes to developing certain diseases, heredity should be taken into account.

Thing is, it's not just heredity that can cause high cholesterol.

Is heredity not actually a cause?

When, however, marked divergences appear without mixing of racial stocks, the result is not due to heredity, but occurs in spite of heredity.»

The most important risk factors — age, family history and heredity — can't be changed, but emerging evidence suggests there may be other factors we can influence.

Age, family history and heredity are all risk factors we can't change.

For some time, the well - known book The Bell Curve has propagated ideas that heredity dictates intelligence, schools can't develop students» intelligence, and the social classes are growing further apart, Nisbett said.

Specifically students will tranvserve the prominent experiments that actually lead the idea that DNA and not protein was responsbile for heredity continuity.

Genetics is a complex subject with challenging vocabulary, and while reading aloud, one student admitted that he did nt know how to pronounce heredity.

Unfortunately, some of these traits are possible only through heredity, and in fact, not obtainable for Substitute Teachers as a whole.

From which we may deduce that an individual can be «modified» merely by the effect of environment, but that fresh characters will not be transmitted by heredity or will be transmitted only with difficulty and perhaps even then only because of some sustained environmental pressure repeatedly exerted upon a large number of generations.

Thus, as a simple rule of thumb, if you are in poor health or heredity is against you and so you don't anticipate living a long time after retirement, start your Social Security benefits early.

Heredity plays a role in SA, although the mode of inheritance is not yet understood.

And these questions aren't even touching the meat and potatoes that dog breeding really is about: canine genetics and heredity.

Cataracts can occur for reasons other than heredity (other diseases, injury, or nutritional imbalance) but these other causes are not common and should not be assumed to be the reason unless confirmed by a veterinary ophthalmologist.

Even though the problem is widespread, the exact mode of inheritance and the heredity has not been studied extensively.

Not just by luck, but through a specific breeding scheme based on heredity and canine genetics.

I am not saying training necessarily has a greater effect on dog behavior than genetic heredity.

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They can occur for reasons other than heredity (other diseases, injury, or nutritional imbalance) but these other causes are not common and should not be assumed to be the reason.

It is not clear what causes the condition although researchers suspect that it is due to heredity, genetics (inherited), something in your cat's environment or diet.

Breeders should evaluate prospective breeding dogs that have been raised under fairly uniform conditions, so that any differences between them are due to heredity, not environmental influences.

Although the actual cause of Wobblers Syndrome is not scientifically known, it is widely agreed that both heredity and nutrition are major factors for predisposition to this condition.

While we know environmental factors (such as growth rate) influence whether CHD shows up clinically during a dog's life, we still don't understand the exact nature of the heredity - environment interaction.

I can't believe that anyone could possibly believe that heredity indicates that biological evolution happened.

My mother certainly wouldn't, but that might lead us into a discussion about the heredity nature of intelligence!

In order for us to know how children's behavior is influenced by their heredity, by their prenatal environment, and by their family relationships, and how these influences are interconnected, we need to study families where the child is not raised by anyone from their biological family.

Because RAD is a new disorder, perhaps the literature on RAD just does not cover aspects such as treatment, heredity, prevalence, gender, or age of onset.