Sentences with phrase «genetic heritage»

Just because they are sitting in your living room does not mean that entire genetic heritage goes away.

This behavior likely derives from a shared genetic heritage with brown bears, from which polar bears separated about 600,000 years ago.

In fact, the German people have no unique genetic heritage to protect.

Dogs whose genetic heritage has programmed them to be alert and focused outward will often have an more pronounced fear period.

Losing one of the two African populations would be a big blow, because it would wipe out their unique genetic heritage — even though the «African» lions would survive.

So you cooperate with close kin because it helps get some of your shared genetic heritage into future generations.

Fat babies grow up into sturdy, well - formed adults, neither too tall nor too short and either slender or stocky depending on genetic heritage.

The different genetic heritages of diatoms, dinoflagellates and cyanobacteria will affect their survival.

Despite retaining their distinct genetic heritage, pygmies seem to have lost their ancestral languages as Bantu speakers moved in.

When dog breeds began to be actively developed about 500 years ago, they were created out of a fairly homogenous gene pool, from dogs with mixed genetic heritages which had been developed in widely disparate locations.

Convergent evolution can not by definition be explained by genetic heritage, but is a result ofthe response of evolution to common and unifying physical laws.

Just like a baker's pan that has been dented, and can only produce defective bread, we can only pass along a distorted genetic heritage to our offspring.

LOST AND FOUND Ancient DNA was lost when some humans (example human skull in background) migrated out of Africa, but the missing genetic heritage was «found» again when modern humans interbred with Neandertals (foreground).

So a first group may have come down the coast, and later groups from the same source population followed inland, carrying the same genetic heritage.

Other people might feel stigmatized by an unusual genetic heritage, but Finns take pride in it.

This common genetic heritage is a potential achilles heel of the metastases, however, many of these shared mutations are in tumor suppressor genes and our approach to therapeutically targeting these needs to be prioritised.

Help us save Nature's genetic heritage so that future generations can enjoy the natural world as we have all done.

EF, as we call it, uses methods that are true to our genes to express the health and longevity that are our rightful genetic heritage.

A straight - forward analysis of «schools» that teach African - Americans to disrespect their own genetic heritage

«Because humans are also vertebrates, we enhance our understanding of our own evolutionary history and genetic heritage when we gain understanding of the amphibian lineage.»

This little cluster goes on to form the tens of thousands of eggs that female mice have at birth, and the millions of sperm cells that males produce every day, and it will pass on the mouse's entire genetic heritage.

«Our measurements show that the growth of Jupiter can be dated using the distinct genetic heritage and formation times of meteorites,» Kruijer said.

Just because he doesn't fit your stereotypical view of what a black man should look like, act like or speak does not take away from his genetic heritage.

The movement promulgated a distinction between «grade A» individuals, who should be encouraged to procreate, and variously unfit people, who should be actively discouraged or disabled from passing on their genetic heritage.

Everyone believed the child would never know the difference... just a clean slate («tabula rasa») with no genetic heritage.

The child's genetic heritage is important.

Our evolutionary inheritance provides us with a predisposed tabula rasa, devoid of innate ideas but endowed with a degree of fundamental hardwiring in the form of a set of instincts aimed narrowly at survival, passed on through our genetic heritage.

What's the right balance between privacy and a person's need to know their genetic heritage?

«In order to detect the genetic variation, we examined the differences in the genetic heritage among different populations.

Differences in height stem from a complex mix of our genetic heritage, overlaid with the effects of nutrition and health in early childhood.

But one self - described neo-Nazi on the district council told The New York Times that by allowing the influx, the German people faced «the destruction of our genetic heritage» and risked becoming «a gray mishmash.»

Our genetic heritage is contained — and protected — in the nucleus of the cells that compose us.

The result of the treatment is determined to a very great extent by the individual patient's genetic heritage (genome).

That said, the fallacy that our design is perfect has recently been matched by an equally fallacious mirror - image notion: that flaws in our genetic heritage are absolutely bad and must be completely discarded.

Those migrants mixed with east Africans, and their descendants carried their genetic heritage into southern Africa.

Among its recommendations: encourage local farmers to maintain local types of livestock; share breeds across borders (particularly when breeds are likely to be suited to specific regions due to certain adaptive traits, such as a need for less water); and establish a gene bank — similar to the regional seed banks that preserve crop diversity — to maintain this genetic heritage.

The greatest part of genetic heritage — and the largest numbers of livestock in general — are concentrated in the developing world.

That wouldn't necessarily improve our own survival, but it would increase the chance that some of our genes, which we share with our relatives, reach another generation, protecting our genetic heritage.

The findings also dispel the idea that Polynesians or Europeans contributed to the genetic heritage of Native Americans.

Sure, lots of people are interested in their genetic heritage, but I'd wager that a much larger segment of the population wants to know about possible health risks written in their DNA.

«We want to know what it is about our genetic heritage that makes us unique,» said Arnold Kriegstein, MD, PhD, professor of developmental and stem cell biology and director of the Eli and Edyth Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCSF.

«The process appears in the end to have had the result that nobody today has the same genetic profile as the original hunter - gatherers, although they continue to be represented in the genetic heritage of today's Europeans,» Pontus Skoglund says.

It's become a familiar story in the age of consumer DNA testing: A person spits into a test tube to learn more about their genetic heritage, and ends up finding out they have a parent or sibling they didn't know existed.

We also demonstrate a clear difference between the fecal microbiota of these two cultures, and therefore variations in terms of their diet and / or genetic heritage.