Sentences with phrase «selfish element in»

Finding a second selfish element in the nematode, he says, suggests that these may not be as rare in animals as people have thought.

They have vowed to disgrace me and I will disgrace them first,» he said The MP vowed to expose what he called greedy and selfish elements in the NPP, who he said were pursuing their own interest.

When you write a resume summary, make sure that there are no selfish elements in it.

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What does happen is that the desires and wishes of the praying person are gradually purged of self - centered and selfish elements; he comes slowly to see that he should pray, for his own condition and for others, for «an increase of faith, hope, and charity» — as the Prayer Book collect for Trinity XIV puts it — and in consequence come to conform his own desires and wishes to the ongoing purposes of God.

Thus the long - known sup - 35 and pha - 1 form what's called a selfish genetic element, Kruglyak's team proposes May 11 in Science.

A maternal - effect selfish genetic element in Caenorhabditis elegans.

This repetitive editing allows the selfish element to drive itself into nearly every organism in a population.

A selfish element called the P element invaded the DNA of Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies in the 1950s, and «in less than 50 years, spread itself worldwide, across oceans, without any human intervention,» says Besansky, of the University of Notre Dame.

Selfish elements live in a wide variety of organisms (including humans), and have devised a variety of methods for getting themselves passed on.

«If we understand how these selfish elements are exploiting the mechanics of meiosis, then we'll understand more deeply how that process works in the first place,» said Michael Lampson, associate professor of biology in Penn's School of Arts and Sciences and senior author on the study.