Sentences with word «heredity»

However, it seems that most studies of this kind focus on the role of heredity in influencing behavior.

In the next - to - last chapter in the book, I try to explain both why and how evolution is opposed, first by drawing on examples where solid science was opposed by other groups (DNA as the basis of heredity in the USSR and vaccination by chiropractors).

Factors such as heredity, access to exercise, parental food habits and cultural differences in portion sizes are all known to contribute to childhood obesity.

With the help of the few books I found on heredity in our small town library (pre-internet), I composed an essay on basic Mendelian inheritance, in which I discussed why some children in a family develop a disease and others do not.

Not heredity but corporate personality explains Yahweh's far - flung punishments upon even the great - grandchildren of his enemies; it was the whole tribe that sinned in any member's sin and it was the whole tribe that suffered.

This study builds on important developments in understanding the relationship between heredity and family environment in child development.

Mendel (1822 - 1884) did this through his discoveries about heredity in plants, describing some of the most important principles in genetics through very simple numerical observations.

H3 Africa is the abbreviation for Human Heredity & Health in Africa, a large - scale network of researchers undertaking genomics studies in Africa — and a clear indicator that this type of research is intensifying across the continent.

Risk factors include heredity, having an abnormal uterus, being of Caucasian descent, or giving birth for the first time after the age of 30.

Since heredity plays such a large role, it is important that ADHD is treated at an early stage, and that measures are taken to prevent individuals developing these disorders later in life.

In its daily business, the College (CCMG) deals with heredity or if you prefer, with genetics, at work in human populations.

Unfortunately, some of these traits are possible only through heredity, and in fact, not obtainable for Substitute Teachers as a whole.

Komondors do not suffer many heredity problems.

Hip Dysplasia is a common heredity condition that is frequent in German Shepherds, so this is a possibility.

Applied to the particular and singular instance of the human species, the idea that education is not merely a «sub-phenomenon», but an integral part of biological heredity, derives unquestionable verification from the very coherence which it brings to the whole landscape, and the relief into which it throws it.

6 Most of that DNA resides not in the cell nuclei, which control heredity, but in our mitochondria, the organelles (units within cells) that generate metabolic energy.

Much of the post-HGP focus has fallen on genes, spurring new discussions of how heredity works and causing scientists to look at DNA differently, setting aside the traditional focus on genes as the dominant actors within DNA.

And so in Christianity we again come upon that mysterious law of additivity and social heredity which in every field governs the processes of Life; while at the same time the fundamental role of education is again manifest, as the human instrument of divine instruction.

That seems harsh since Darwin had doubts over blended inheritance, and had already taken a huge theoretical leap in understanding heredity at the time.

What other than genetic heredity could account for our eternal hunger to see humans scurrying away from fast - approaching danger?

He is convinced that not only heredity but other aspects of life as well are similarly reducible:

For the purpose of examining the additive mechanism of Life in its vital, active form I propose to look in a direction which the theorists of heredity seem to have ignored.

Gene - the functional and physical unit of heredity passed from parent to offspring.

On the wider scientific canvas, however, the advances in biology and medicine have began to draw a more sophisticated, many - layered picture where heredity is characterised with a notable degree of flexibility and openness to the effects of personal or collective experience and the influence of the environment.

Heredity also plays an important role in predisposing a person to facial pigmentation.

Although the Brussels Griffon has no known heredity health problems, it has several health issues.

Some rodents will barber themselves due to stress, inappropriate caging, boredom, and even heredity.

Although the idea of environmental influences seems rather intuitive, regardless of knowledge regarding heredity and biological factors, it is surprising that some may have considered criminal behavior to be solely a result of genetics.

She teamed up with a science teacher, who dealt with the actual genetics / heredity aspect of the project, and Varcadipane focused on the statistical analyses.

Multimedia Resources include educational websites, videos, and apps, which cover basic heredity, genetic disorders, eugenics, the discovery of the structure of DNA, the human genome, cancer, neurobiology, plant genetics, RNA interference, epigenetics, and bioinformatics.

In fact, the first two chapters of their Prentice Hall textbook cover heredity and modern genetics.

I was a bit surprised at the scientific literature that suggested heredity has a good deal to do with personality and behavior.

That some people may be biologically vulnerable to alcohol addiction has not been proven; in fact, there is no evidence that heredity places a person at greater risk of becoming a heavy drinker than family environment, character, beliefs and conduct.

And also — this is the least that can be said — we see heredity pass through education beyond the individual to enter into its collective phase and become social.

In it we can perhaps catch a glimpse, still in the marginal, conscious state, of individual, germinal heredity in process of formation: as though organic mutation at this stage took the form of a psychic invention contrived by the parents and transmitted by them.

That is why the science of Life concentrates more and more upon the study of cellular heredity.

In that universe of discourse, belief in God spells trust in life and man, as capable of transcending the potentialities of evil that inhere in his animal heredity, in his social heritage, and in the conditions of his environment.

Darwin knew nothing of Mendelian heredity of industrial melanism, but be had three very powerful arguments and sets of evidence for evolution sufficient to convince himself and, by the end of his life, a great number of others who were initially skeptical.

«Our texts say not a word about what it means to be a good person or to serve God's will in these extraordinary situations,» concludes critic Ruth Schwartz Cowan in her book Heredity and Hope: The Case for Genetic Screening (Harvard University Press).