Sentences with phrase «selection over thousands of years»

Not exact matches

The idea that induced change to aplant's genetic code is a phenomenon of the DNA age is also untrue: modern hexaploid wheat possesses six times as many chromosomes as its prehistoric ancestor, thanks to tireless selection and breeding over ten thousand years of human farming.

«Over the course of several thousand years, human - driven selection caused major physical changes, turning the unproductive plant into modern maize, commonly known as corn.

The assumption by evolutionists is that since each population of squirrels will experience different mutations and will have different selection pressures over many tens of thousands of years, the time will come when they will be different enough so that they would not be able to interbreed even if they were placed together.

I've lost thousands over the years because of the lousy fund selection and high fees.

Although a proportion of the ROH observed in both English bulldog and Standard Poodle can be attributed to natural selection pressures occurring over thousands of years [33, 34], the differences in ROH size and number are better explained by the comparative changes in outward appearance.

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