Sentences with phrase «with genes from both parents»

Not exact matches

Evolution occurs when the offspring differ from the parent's genetics, so a bird that was almost a chicken laid an egg with the genes for the «first» chicken.

In Martin's view, the result strongly suggested that the patients had inherited the silenced gene from one of their parents, like the case with agouti mice.

When an altered X chromosome is passed down to female offspring, Gantz reasoned, the gene drive should convert the normal X from the other parent into one with a broken yellow gene.

The researchers say that the higher the coefficient, the likelier that children would inherit pairs of faulty genes, with no prospect of a «good» gene from either parent to compensate.

The resulting chicks will identify with one or the other of the parent species through song and appearance, but they will carry genes from both parents.

For many, this isn't an issue because the donor's mitochondria contribute just 37 genes to the child, compared with more than 20,000 from the parents.

But if you knew that the effect of a drug had a lot to do with whether you inherited specific genes from your mother or father, then you could design an experiment that would include parents.

But because the fetus's sequences were inferred from their parents» gene scans, whole - genome sequences of the parents (rather than a comparison with 900,000 points) are needed to get a complete fetal genome, Lo says.

Unlike genes, which are almost exclusively transmitted «vertically» — from parent to offspring — fairy tales can also spread horizontally when one culture intermingles with another.

As we take our first bites, our parents supply us simultaneously with both nature (genes) and nurture (environment in its broadest sense, including everything from cuisine to family dynamics to religion to cutlery and table manners to the ethics of meat to views on whether it's acceptable to eat food off the floor if it was there for only five seconds).

The result is a reproductive cell with a mosaic, or patchwork, of genes, about half from each parent, but shuffled together into entirely new combinations.

The physical and personal traits a person winds up with are just one big roll of the dice, with only the biological parents» genes to draw from.

An interesting corollary here is that around 14 % of diagnoses involved an autosomal dominant disease gene with a variant inherited from a parent.

A dog with a phenotype of Irish, could actually have a genotype of SiSi (inherited the Irish gene from both parents) or SiSp, (inherited one Irish gene and one pied gene).

With designer dogs, however, there is no guarantee which genes the puppies will inherit from either parent — it could be the best of both dogs, the worst of both, or a combination of the two.

You could end up with anything from 20 to 50 pounds (9 - 22 kg) depending on which of its parents» genes are dominant.

Of course, there's good reason for «pedigree» — it means that the dog or cat has been bred without genetic illnesses, from parents with good genes.

Cats affected with hip dysplasia inherit the gene from both parents, even if neither parent shows outward signs of the disease.

A dog with normal patellas whose dam had luxating patellas will likely be carrying a much higher number of the genes needed to produce luxating patellas than a dog from two normal parents.

Perhaps the most compelling evidence to this effect comes from Dutch research indicating that the anticipated effects of daily hassles on sensitive parenting was most pronounced in parents with a combination of genes leading to the least efficient dopaminergic system functioning (COMT val / val or val / met, DRD4 - 7Repeat).