Sentences with phrase «gene pool as»

Government officials come from the same gene pool as every other human and may believe that a person or a company has engaged in intentional wrongdoing.

This will in turn introduce much - needed diversity into the gene pool as scientists attempt to rebuild decimated populations.

In an analysis of ancient genomes published August 4 in Current Biology, researchers at Stockholm University and Uppsala University in Sweden and Middle East Technical University in Turkey report that at least two waves of early European settlers belonged to the same gene pool as farmers in Central Turkey — genealogy that can be traced back to some of the first people to cultivate crops outside of Mesopotamia.

Or, as Esvelt's lab suggested in June 2016, drive components could be scattered throughout a genome so the driving mechanism fades from the gene pool as generations pass.

Topher shows us how easy it is to slip back into old patterns of illogic, though he will quite likely demonstrate how no longer useful traits get weeded out of the gene pool as those few like him fade into the past.

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Biologists define evolution as a change in the gene pool of a population over time.

She / he probably has mail parts downstairs as well, definately way to much testosterone... bad gene pool... that is for sure..

«She / he probably has mail parts downstairs as well, definately way to much testosterone... bad gene pool..»

I say it can't happen soon enough either, as the vast majority of the people that are offing themselves would be the ones that need to leave the gene pool anyway.

if identifying with others» suffering is only worthwhile as long as it serves the gene pool, is that really compassion?

Just as the Third Reich feared the tainting of the Aryan gene pool by inferior races (like the Jews), America was feeling threatened by the influx of «lower races» from southern and eastern Europe.

You see evolution is defined as «change in the gene pool of a population from generation to generation by such processes as mutation, natural selection, and genetic drift.»

However, when conservationists try to oppose polluters and developers solely with pragmatic arguments about the value to human welfare of, for example, gene pools in rain forests, they have been maneuvered into fighting on the same ground as their opponents.

As a rule of thumb, plant breeders in both public research institutes and private companies use genetic engineering only in the following situations: 1) the gene of interest is not found within the crop gene pool, 2) if found in the gene pool, transfer will be difficult due to incompatibility and other breeding problems or 3) the transfer of the gene will take a long time as in the case of perennial crops like coconuAs a rule of thumb, plant breeders in both public research institutes and private companies use genetic engineering only in the following situations: 1) the gene of interest is not found within the crop gene pool, 2) if found in the gene pool, transfer will be difficult due to incompatibility and other breeding problems or 3) the transfer of the gene will take a long time as in the case of perennial crops like coconuas in the case of perennial crops like coconut.

The frequent use of under - utilized species (often as rotation crops to build soil fertility) reduces erosion of agro-biodiversity, creating a healthier gene pool - the basis for future adaptation.

A decentralization of the gene pool had begun, and the distances between groups acted as barriers to the exchange of DNA, barriers that have persisted into the modern day.

But as researchers pool data from thousands of cancer gene tests, some of those benign variants may be reclassified as dangerous, or may become informative in ways that hadn't been anticipated.

5 One leading hypothesis suggests that sex won out over DIY as a defense against parasites, which would be less harmful in a varied gene pool.

But those from the hotter pool survived for longer and had higher expression of 60 genes, including well - known thermal - tolerance genes such as those that make heat - shock proteins and antioxidant enzymes.

Unlike many populations of animals that undergo genetic changes over numerous generations and improve their camouflage against the environment, sand fleas from the different beaches begin life as a planktonic larval stage and so are likely to come from the same gene pool.

An international team of roughly 300 scientists known as the Enhancing Neuro Imaging Genetics through Meta Analysis (ENIGMA) Network pooled brain scans and genetic data worldwide to pinpoint genes that enhance or break down key brain regions in people from 33 countries.

One speculation from Wigler is that mutations with very damaging impact on cognition will tend to be eliminated rapidly from the gene pool, as people with them are less likely to have children.

As it is, the surviving Przewalski's horses have a limited gene pool.

Such small, isolated populations are essentially doomed: even if the forest fragments survive, sooner or later dwindling gene pools or disasters such as forest fires and disease outbreaks will wipe them out.

When the team looked at the chromosomes of more than 1000 people from populations around the world, they concluded that the prevalence of two of these variations was due to an evolutionary balancing act that had kept them in the gene pool for as long as 500,000 years.

Because people in a region are more likely to marry and mate with each other — a factor that may be largely due to shared language — that gene pool will evolve as a separate cluster that corresponds to a place on the globe, he explains.

The isolated populations then undergo genotype and phenotype divergence as natural selection pressures differ in their separate ecosystems, they undergo genetic drift in separated populations, and different mutations differ in their isolated gene pools.

As a result, no modern horse population can fully represent the genetic diversity ancestral to the modern, domesticated gene pool (11 ⇓ — 13).

There is even DNA evidence suggesting that another, as of yet unknown, hominid contributed to the present European and Asian gene pool.

This finding supports a European contribution to the Mexican gene pool primarily by male settlers and confirms the effectiveness of employing the uniparentally - transmitted mtDNA as a tool to reconstruct a countryâ $ ™ s history.â $ Read more hereâ $ ¦

As a result, the misidentification of genetic variants associated to the Neolithic spread and the effect of post-Neolithic expansions in the genetic make - up of Europe could have introduced important biases in the estimations of the Neolithic component of the European gene pool producing misleading conclusions [22].

For instance, imagine if the genetic variants mentioned earlier, responsible for encouraging the development of larger brains, were identified by geneticists as potentially harmful mutations and promptly eliminated from the gene pool.

Seems to me that those who digested their heart or leg muscles before using fat reserves when there wasn't any food wouldn't have jumped into the gene pool with all the vigor as those of us that actually lived on our storage organ.

This could either be an advantage as there may be more serious people on it or a disadvantage that the gene pool is too small or people have just joined for curiosity to start with.

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Anderson presents a pudding - label contest in a way as interesting and romantic as canned peaches in a Wong Kar - Wai film and makes of an impromptu Sandler soft - shoe in a grocery aisle something as pure and sentimental as Gene Kelly splashing through pools of water.

Kroll is amusing, and Rose Byrne (Neighbors) is lovely, as always, as his sister (though they do not look like they came from the same gene pool), but neither they nor Bobby Cannavale (The Station Agent) can save the script from its soggy elements (water really is a metaphor here, isn't it?).

It's unclear how she and Winfried could belong to the same gene pool, yet as the movie progresses, we will see connections between father and daughter that are hard to imagine, early on.

When Tunstall is killed by Murphy's (Jack Palance) men in a kind of frontier - style hostile takeover (Fusco, recognizing the difficulty of condensing the politics of the Santa Fe Ring for Young Guns» demographic, counts on Palance's black hat and beady stare to do his adversarial bidding), Billy becomes the de facto leader of the now - deputized Regulators (best shot, loudest mouth), leaving Sheen to pretend that his and Estevez's characters are not obviously from the same gene pool, Sutherland to romantic pursuits, Phillips to blur ethnic lines per usual as a Mexican Navajo, Mulroney to twitch, and Siemaszko to also twitch.

That said, the 2008 Liberty appears to have the right stuff, including a «Trail Rated» badge that confirms it's a real Jeep, for those who insist vehicles such as the Compass are diluting Jeep's gene pool.

In short, the 918 Spyder will act as the gene pool for the Porsche sports cars of the future.

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In Japan, these dogs are respected and considered healthier and smarter as they come from a bigger gene pool than most pure breeds,» explains the Japanese - born permanent resident, who has been residing in our sunny island for 19 years.

The available gene pool is, of course, the great equalizer that levels the playing field in our quest to breed dogs that meet the breed standard, as any of us can only achieve as much success in that quest as the available gene pool allows.

The purpose of selective breeding such as this was to create a genetically sound cat with a large gene pool and hybrid vigor.

Hyperuricemia in Dalmatians (as in all breeds) is inherited, but unlike other breeds, the «normal» gene is not present in the Dalmatian breed's gene pool.

The conclusions from the seminar were (a) don't throw out the COMMD1 test and (b) as a numerically small breed we can not afford to restrict the gene pool.

And the odds are good they will not be young animals, either, if you're looking at those percentages, because as the gene pool becomes more contaminated with each generation, the number of Normals decreases.

In an attempt to inject some healthy diversity back into the breed's gene pool, Swiss breeders have begun crossing the English bulldog with a breed from the US, known as «The Olde English Bulldogge».