Sentences with phrase «particular gene pool»
Electrocutions, roof cave - ins, and getting blown up on the way to the airport after a tour of duty in Iraq are just a few of the misfortunes visited on that particular gene pool.
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``... when there is a systematic increase or decrease in the frequency with which we see a particular gene in a gene pool, that is precisely what we mean by evolution.»
Their research, published in PLOS ONE, focused on one particular gene — TRIM29 — selected from a pool of 100 genes with regulatory patterns specific to normal breast tissue, to prove the link between breast - specific genes and the pathology of cancer.
And although the rest of Genghis Khan's genome has certainly, if Zerjal and Tyler - Smith are right, made an outsize contribution to the Central Asian gene pool, it has been chopped to bits and mixed in so thoroughly over the centuries by genetic recombination that no one today is likely to have his whole suite of genes for any particular trait.
The DNA he has brought back records not just our distant history but also our more recent past — and in particular what happened around 800 years ago, when a prodigious fornicator named Genghis Khan splashed into the gene pool like a cannonball.
He does have one particular obsession, and that is the so - called Darwin Awards, which are fictional annual awards (delivered in book and internet form) given to people who die through acts of sheer stupidity (a man straps a jet engine to his car, a woman puts an RV in cruise control thinking it will drive itself, etc.), thus taking the dumbest among us out of the human gene pool.
Doing a genetic test and subsequently eliminating an individual from the breeding population may not be the best strategy, as by targeting a particular allele at one genetic locus for removal from the gene pool of a particular breed, breeders may in fact increase allele frequency of genetic variants on alternative haplotypes at the same, or a different locus, that are recessively deleterious.
As the artists immersed themselves in catalogues and visited store rooms in the bowels of Leeds City Art Gallery, they were confronted with a particular and sometimes peculiar gene pool of objects, the product of over a hundred years of municipal collecting.