Sentences with phrase «gene pool with»

Marr said he found support for his approach online — a beekeeper in Nebraska who recommends building a strong and diverse gene pool with wild bees instead of commercially bred mail - order shipments; minimizing pesticide exposure by locating the hives far away from cultivated farm fields; avoiding antibiotic and other chemical treatments to fight bee parasites and diseases, instead relying on beneficial fungi, bacteria and other components of a healthy hive system; and then raising queens and new bees from those bees that survive the first year.

By not diluting a gene pool with over breeding the Maltese have managed to preserve the authenticity of this breed and ensure hardy stock.

Until the breed is well established, letting these dogs mate naturally removes some risk of anatomically bad breeders with a bit too narrow hindquarters slip into the gene pool with an artificial insemination.

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.

It's difficult and time - consuming for coffee breeders to stir up the plant's gene pool with traditional cross-breeding techniques, because Coffea is a perennial; developing a new strain can take something like 25 years.

He's trying to expand the cultivated peanut's gene pool with genes from its wild cousins.

Closed gene pools with circumscribed locales are doomsday scenarios waiting to happen.

Not exact matches

(insert your own, southerners backwoods joke here) So Mendel fails, in my mind, to adequately account for the very narrow gene pool (read single - celled organism) that the theory of evolution begins with.

(Answers: 1) because they lived and died millions of years before humans and extant forms; 2) because humans and dinosaurs never coexisted; 3) this simply didn't happen, but the creationist response is apparently, and ironically, «hyper - evolution» from severely bottle - necked gene pools; and 4) because we share a common ancestor with egg - laying organisms)

Those with naturally bigger teeth will be better able to utilize this food resource, allowing them to survive when members of their group with smaller teeth starve, thus leaving the big toothed ones to prosper and reproduce, thus increasing the frequency of big teeth genes in their gene pool.

Those with naturally goo coordination survive and reproduce at fast rates, altering the frequency of genes in their pool, et, etc, etc..

I someone murdered my child I would extinguish their gene pool and then go on happily with my life knowing that the real God approves totally.

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

Wouldn't natural selection be more tuned towards finding the healthiest, most handsome, «richest» gene pool to breed with?

Instead, we run around du mbing the gene pool down, breeding with the neanderthals.

What I'm really going to do is to rid the gene pool of its 10,000 worst contributors, in an effort to speed up the evolution of the human race (yes: I made the system automatic, so that I didn't have to bother diddling with it at every moment: Darwin was right, but the process turned out slower than I expected, and I got bored, hence the urge to speed things up a tad).

I can come up with an evolutionary, genetically based answer — don't mess with their nest and where they want to raise their young.You mess with the gene pool and you are messing with them.

However, if I was an ancient Israelite, and I saw things like the Red Sea parting, staff turned into snakes, and the Shekinah glory, and prophets predicting specific future events with 100 % accuracy, and other nations setting their face against Israel to destroy her and / or engaged in human sacrifice, and they weren't typical humans but were actually a group of hybrids like the Nephalim or the Rephaim that were polluting the gene pool to try to foil God's plan of ultimately bringing a Messiah to save all mankind one day, and God wanted them to repent and sent them warning after warning, and they refused, and God commanded me thus....

Evolution deal directly with change in gene pools of a population.

``... when there is a systematic increase or decrease in the frequency with which we see a particular gene in a gene pool, that is precisely what we mean by evolution.»

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.

Until recently, half of the human race died from infectious causes before adulthood, providing strong selective pressure for genetic alleles that enhance host defence but why are the genetic alleles that are most frequently associated with depression so common in the modern gene pool?

Which would not really be a big enough gene pool to fill a whole planet with viable humans.

Even if Noah impregnated all of them at once, or his sons did their respective wives, and then they all repeated the process 14 years later (give or take) when the 1st offspring became fertile, how could different races with distinct physiological adaptation arise from such a small, virtually identical gene pool 4,000 years ago?

In Southern Europe, there may be more opportunities arising from some of the «brown breeds» with high initial levels of the A2 gene, but it will still be very hard to put together large pools of A2 milk.

«With our size, Colleen and I make up quite a gene pool, but without exposure to games our kids could have turned out to be average — if outsized — competitors.»

«Once I did the DNA test it linked me to people in their database with the closest gene pool, and it found my aunt and first cousin!»

Some mothers aren't able to breast feed for medical reasons, so «wishing a gene pool would die off» because a family has to rely on formula vs. breast milk is absurd and to dignify that comment with more time - well it would probably be inappropriate.

The gene pool dilutes with every passing generation.

The large MESA population also provided Rodriguez with a rich data pool: She decided to analyze all known mutations of the SCARB1 gene.

Normally, any mutation that interfered with reproduction would be quickly weeded out of the gene pool.

But critics warn that genetic engineering has a dark side too, and could lead to designer babies or the release of dangerous DNA sequences into the gene pool, with dire environmental consequences.

The researchers used «bait» proteins from over two dozen known autism genes, fishing in a pool of human DNA for other proteins that would interact with the baits.

The system relies on admixture — a genetic principle that argues that when a family migrates across a geographic barrier into a new location, they start mating with the locals; new traits start blending into their gene pool, and this genetic diversity provides a ruler for gauging the distance from home.

When implanted into mice, the pool of altered cells maintained their gene edits long - term, with no signs of side effects.

Their research, published in PLOS ONE, focused on one particular gene — TRIM29 — selected from a pool of 100 genes with regulatory patterns specific to normal breast tissue, to prove the link between breast - specific genes and the pathology of cancer.

The findings, he and others say, suggest that wildlife managers should focus scarce resources on those threatened populations with larger gene pools within a species.

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.

Making matters worse, the severe loss of wild honeybees due to mite infestation virtually eliminates any chance that feral drones will mate with commercial queens and liven up the gene pool.

This is unusual because invasive species with greater genetic diversity often have a greater chance at survival — a more diverse gene pool means more variety in traits of individuals for natural selection to act upon and allow the species to survive and thrive in a new area.

Professor Morten Sommer adds: «The findings from our research demonstrate that wastewater treatment plants contain a huge pool of genes with the capacity to provide bacteria with antimicrobial resistance, but that these genes do not appear in pathogenic bacteria.

For example, male zebrafish with more numerous or more effective breeding ornaments — and thus lower regenerative potential — might contribute more to the gene pool, phasing out regenerative potential over generations.

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.

«It's more like restarting with a new gene pool.»

Researchers hunting for disease genes will scan the genomes of many people with and without, say, cancer, combing through a pool of hundreds of thousands of DNA variants.

In one experiment, mice with the broken gene could not remember where an underwater platform was located in their mouse - sized swimming pool even though they'd encountered it in the same spot more than a dozen times in the previous two weeks.

Researchers examined DNA data from grey wolves - the ancestors of the domestic dog — to determine how much their gene pool was diluted with the DNA of domestic canines, and how widespread the process of hybridisation is.

The white - footed mice's success is encouraging from a conservation perspective, since the urban mice were starting with a limited gene pool — only half the genetic diversity of country mice, noted Max Lambert, an urban ecologist and doctoral candidate at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, who was not involved in the study.

This is a collaboration with the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines, and the objective is to use pre-breeding strategies to explore the genetic potential of wild and unadapted rice germplasm and to enlarge the gene pool that is utilized for routine plant improvement.

For the analysis of gene expression in blastocysts, total RNA was isolated and purified from three pools of 10 blastocysts produced in vivo or in vitro (KSOM supplemented with 10 % FCS or in the presence of 1 g / L BSA) using the RNeasy Micro Kit (Qiagen)[18].