Sentences with phrase «gene theory»

In addition, other results from this study seem not to support the major gene theory for elbow dysplasia in the three breeds.

Mendel is perhaps the more familiar figure; most high school biology classes explain how the Moravian monk developed gene theory and the theory of inherited characteristics (with its distinction between recessive and dominant traits) from his studies of the humble pea.

Data for other species suggests that low insulin sensitivity contributes to obesity by shifting energy metabolism from muscle to fat as hypothesized by the thrifty gene theory (16).

The results from the shuffled and the transformed data sets were interpreted as undermining the major gene theory for elbow dysplasia, although the mixed inheritance models provided a clearly better fit to the data than did the polygenic models for both HD and ED.

One believes leaders are born (such as the Great Man theory of leadership and gene theory).

better yet why not hold Medel in highest esteem as his work in genes lays the true foundation for the Modern theory of Evolution, which owes much more to gene theory than Darwin's.

«It means the demise of the selfish - gene theory,» says Eva Jablonka at Tel Aviv University, Israel.

To put his gene theory into practice, all Burt and his colleagues had to do was reengineer a homing endonuclease to cut a certain spot in a mosquito's genome.

One of the greatest discoveries in plant pathology in the twentieth century was that of Flor in the 1940s when he proposed his gene for gene theory, based on results of his crosses of flax, each of which were resistant to none, one, or several races of flax rust (3).