Sentences with phrase «selfish elements»

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

Burt's notion was to domesticate a microbial family of selfish elements called homing endonuclease genes.

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

Selfish elements don't play by those rules.

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.

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.

Of course, there is a selfish element to it but also quite a parental feel.

The big community of researchers regularly studying C. elegans had missed discovering the selfish role for a simple reason: The main lab strain of nematodes carries the selfish element, explains study coauthor Eyal Ben - David.

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.

Like molecular scissors, the enzyme snips the target DNA if it doesn't already have the selfish element.

He envisioned inserting a selfish element into a particular gene, creating a gene drive, which would change the inheritance rules to make sure that the drive would get passed on to a majority of a creature's progeny.

«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.

Specifically, a gene called Overdrive acts as a «selfish element» and skews sperm production so that hybrid males mainly make sperm carrying X chromosomes.

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