Unless they believe that because the parents are good working dogs, the pups,
through inherited traits, will also be good workers.
Not exact matches
Spotted mice don't carry a gene for white - tipped tails; the
trait is
inherited through RNA, not DNA.
Once that becomes available to the general population at an affordable price, he says, geneticists will be able to track your DNA letter by letter across generations to find out whether a rare
trait was
inherited from your mother or from your father or acquired
through a unique mutation.
(C) By ensuring that the gene is almost always
inherited, the gene drive can spread the altered gene
through a population over many generations, even if the associated
trait reduces the reproductive fitness of each organism.
Bad Genes, Babies, and Bathwater warns of the danger inherent in excessively rigid or broadly based efforts to eradicate
inherited diseases and unwanted
traits through removing dogs from breeding.
Diversity and
inherited disorders: Breeds, and lineages within breeds, are developed
through concerted selected breeding often utilizing breeding schemes in which distantly or closely related individuals are bred to «fix» desirable morphological and behavioral
traits permitting dogs to reliably pass on those
traits to the next generation.