Sentences with phrase «identical genes inherited»

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For Darwin's own children, the coefficient was 0.063, meaning that 6.3 per cent of his children's genes inherited from both father and mother were identical.

From the family tree they worked out an «inbreeding coefficient» for each marriage — a figure reflecting the proportion of inherited genes in the children that would be identical from both parents.

By comparing identical twins (who share all their genes) and fraternal twins (who share on average half of the genes that typically vary between people), the researchers were also able to determine the extent to which the ability to recognise faces is inherited.