Sentences with phrase «predetermined by genes»

Were the traits predetermined by genes that were set at the start of the cell's life?

That's according to a study that challenges the theory that life happiness is largely predetermined by your genes.

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Aging has been predetermined in our genes, experts say, and cells can only divide forty to sixty times before they reach the «Hayflick Limit,» a theory advanced in 1961 by Leonard Hayflick at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Most of these issues can be predetermined by medical testing, however, so a good breeder will have bred many of these genes out of their breeding line.

Some of those outcomes (such as behavior often labeled «innate» or «instinctive») are relatively invariant, but this invariance reflects a dynamic rather than a static constancy, ensured by a system of stable... developmental interactions, not a predetermined set of instructions encoded in the genes.