Sentences with phrase «genetic constitution»

Medicine and biology alter the boundaries and genetic constitutions of life, thereby injecting new urgency into debates about the integrity of nature and human nature.

The key to cross breeding to purebred dogs is what is called hybrid vigor, the breeding resulting in a healthier dog with superior genetic constitution can come from dogs purebred for so long that they have common genetic disorders.

Either to intervene or not to intervene in our genetic constitutions.

By applying this to human embryos, sperm or eggs, scientists can manipulate the genetic constitution of children.

Shepard goes to great lengths to show the negative consequences of ordering human societies in ways that work against our genetic constitution.

It is a mistake, however, to think that it is in all cases wholly dependent on the genetic constitution and that the environment plays no role in shaping the behaviour.

Reiner concluded from this work that the sexual identity followed the genetic constitution.

Internal factors had to do with body size, age and genetic constitution.

Before Dr. Garcia developed the New Mexican pod type, there was no control over the genetic constitution of the chile seeds planted, so farmers could never predict the size or heat of the pods.

«In natural hybrid zones, we find natural species complexes and can examine their genetic constitution,» says Stöck.

So that an individual's genetic constitution, his or her nature, defines how that individual will respond from the initial environmental exposures in a developing fetus, in utero, post birth and then throughout life.

«Given all we know about chimpanzee social and individual learning, it seems unlikely that there are any chimpanzees that, because of their genetic constitution, can not observationally learn all the kinds of tool use seen in Africa.»

Similarly, it is clear my mother - in - law has no complaints about being overrepresented in the genetic constitution of her first grandchild.

What has been lost and what has changed over this time in the genetic constitution of the black - footed ferret — its gene pool?

Genotype the genetic constitution of an individual, that is, the specific (allelic) makeup of an individual, usually with reference to a specific character under consideration.

To the extent that the heavier using twin's brain is different from the lesser using co-twin's, the observed brain deviation can be attributed to the heavier using twin's excessive substance use since the twins are matched for their genetic constitution and shared rearing experiences.