Sentences with phrase «produce more daughters»

Interestingly, dominant breeding females in larger groups do appear to produce more daughters that go on to breed.

Not exact matches

I was producing more than what my daughter ate each day, and I continued building my freezer stash one bag a time.

Since I was pumping every 3 - 4 hours and was producing way more milk than my daughter would / could eat, the NICU nurses had me pump about 30 - 60 min before her feeding times so I wouldn't have a let - down while she was eating.

The more my daughter fed, the more milk I would produce.

I was producing a lot more than my daughter was drinking, so I thought it would be nice to help preemies receive some of the benefits of breastmilk.

I decided to donate my breast milk because I was producing a lot more than what my daughter was consuming.

I found going back to work I pump on the following schedule and still produce more than what my daughter uses: 6 am, 10 am, 2 pm, 9 pm.

Just when I thought I couldn't possibly produce more milk, my daughter went through her six - week growth spurt and jumped from the 51st to the 92nd percentile for weight.

Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, knew that stem cells are more useful for gene therapy than ordinary cells, because they produce multiple daughter cells with the modified genes.

Conversely, the argument runs, men are more likely to leave a marriage that produces daughters.

«Any universe that produces more black holes will create more daughter universes,» he says, «and its physics will be passed on to those daughters.»

In Petri dishes, yeast grown on gel containing 0.5 percent of the sugar glucose produced, on average, about four more daughters than yeast grown with 2 percent glucose — a life span extension of about 15 percent.

They learn more if instead it emits an alpha particle (two protons and two neutrons) to produce a «daughter nucleus» and then that emits another alpha and so on.

Scientists think that these niches control stem cell behavior, that is «telling» the stem cell when to produce more stem cells or when to produce daughter cells that will be the workhorses for that tissue or organ.

In humans, after a stem cell splits in two, only one of the daughter cells migrates away and becomes a specialised cell, leaving one behind to produce more cells.

In that sense, the female is acting in the best interest of her genes: A son will, on average, produce more grandchildren for her than would a daughter, because males have more opportunities to mate in a female - dominated population.

A study of 2.39 million lactation records from 1.49 million dairy cows showed that cows produce significantly more milk for daughters than for sons across lactation.

A study of 2.39 million lactation records from 1.49 million dairy cows showed that cows produce significantly more milk for daughters than for sons across lactation, said Barry Bradford, associate professor in K - State's Department of Animal Sciences and Industry.

Cows with two daughters back - to - back produced about 445 kilograms — or about 980 pounds — more milk across the first two lactations than did cows with back - to - back sons, he said.

Following injury, nearby progenitors switch from «maintenance mode» to «wound mode» in which they produce an excess of progenitor daughters until the tissue is repaired, when they revert to maintenance mode once more.

When these particles collide at these velocities, they create micro-explosions with temperatures 100,000 times hotter than the sun that produce showers of thousands to millions sub-atomic particles which rapidly decay into even more daughter particles.

If female fertility gene disruption occurred early in development rather than in the germline, the same system could produce a male - linked dominant sterile - daughter effect that would be less powerful but more readily modulated (Supplementary Fig. 10).

And when a British couple recently welcomed their first daughter — after the father's family had produced only sons for four generations and more than 100 years — it certainly seemed like they had defied some crazy, predetermined odds.

This family melodrama about aging, mortality, and reconciliation is more significant as a social than artistic event: It's the only teaming of Henry Fonda (who won an Oscar) with daughter Jane (who produced it for him) and also with screen icon Hepburn.

A more sensitive and restrained soul, he calmly produces breads and sweets while he forges a special bond with his daughter Hala, the tempestuous eye of the family storm.