Search results for "Heredity" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Biological inheritance or Heredity is the process by which a cell or organism acquires characteristics of its parent cell or organism. The study ...3 KB (403 words) - 15:38, 2 August 2022
- quot; interactionist metaphor (with heredity on the X-axis and environment ... *1941. Woodworth, R.S. Heredity and Environment: A Critical Survey ...11 KB (1,471 words) - 02:14, 16 December 2022
- chromosomes, or meiosis whose roles in heredity were elaborated years after ... This simple test gave birth to the idea of heredity. Mendel read his ...16 KB (2,499 words) - 19:37, 5 January 2024
- ===Heredity=== Galton conducted wide-ranging inquiries into heredity. In the process ...23 KB (3,472 words) - 04:50, 9 April 2024
- Darwin. They believed that one's heredity and social environment decide ... and controlled by environment, heredity, instinct, or chance. But ...18 KB (2,651 words) - 04:21, 11 March 2023
- Montagu's other texts include reference works on heredity (Montagu ... the Light of Genetics." Journal of Heredity, 32, 243-247. ...15 KB (2,208 words) - 04:42, 18 August 2023
- Genotype is the genetic makeup (set of genes) of an individual organism or cell. Genes, the units of heredity in living organisms, are encoded ...10 KB (1,463 words) - 08:02, 23 January 2023
- their lives. Beyond risk factors related to heredity, gender, and age, many of the risk factors involve aspects that people can control, such as smoking ...11 KB (1,487 words) - 15:13, 25 January 2023
- contrast to eugenic theories that emphasized heredity and to Freud's theories of childhood traumas. It was Meyer who suggested the term ...9 KB (1,247 words) - 06:03, 15 June 2023
- Supreme Dangun and the Vice-Dangun were judged by heredity, and sometimes the ruler could be succeeded by one of the Ohga, which shows that the sovereign ...10 KB (1,333 words) - 21:05, 31 October 2022
- and associations of human nature, heredity, and marriage. ... Here Chopin deals with the concept of race and heredity in context ...17 KB (2,711 words) - 17:09, 5 October 2022
- based biochemistry. All cells pass on their heredity via the genetic material that is based upon nucleic acids such as DNA using a nearly universal ...11 KB (1,596 words) - 23:46, 3 December 2023
- [http://essays.backintyme.biz/item/12 The Heredity of “Racial” Traits, ... * Sweet, Frank F. The Heredity of “Racial” Traits. Essays on the ...21 KB (3,025 words) - 11:09, 10 March 2023
- Genes, the units of heredity in living organisms, are encoded in an organism's genetic material (DNA). They exert a central influence on ...26 KB (4,036 words) - 10:59, 3 August 2021
- to be the true church was not justified by its heredity. Part of this corruption involved prayers for the dead and chantries. These were seen as corrupt ...12 KB (1,874 words) - 21:01, 3 November 2022
- American Larix species based on allozymes. Heredity 83: 62–70. * Wei, X.-X., and X.-Q. Wang. 2003. [http://www.springerlink.com/content/el841ejf4mp639fv ...12 KB (1,828 words) - 06:55, 4 March 2023
- Biology and anthropology have now shown the enormous power of heredity in determining individual character and the great persistence of innate ...13 KB (1,861 words) - 10:35, 11 May 2023
- the race through wise application of the laws of heredity." Marian Van Court, The Case for Eugenics in a Nutshell. In the early twentieth ...14 KB (2,043 words) - 08:32, 10 March 2023
- and rheumatoid arthritis. Family heredity can also play a part in the onset of the syndrome, although it is quite rare. Some individuals have ...16 KB (2,381 words) - 06:49, 12 January 2024
- *The Heredity of Taste (1906) *The 210th Day (1906) *The Poppy (1907) *The Miner (1908) *Ten Nights of Dream (1908) *Sanshiro (1908) ...14 KB (2,244 words) - 15:18, 11 November 2022
- criminal tendencies was organic in nature—heredity was the key cause of deviance. The term Lombrosos used to describe the appearance of those resembling ...15 KB (2,164 words) - 01:47, 13 January 2023
- The units of heredity in living organisms are encoded in an organism's genetic material, DNA. The nucleic acid DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid ...18 KB (2,592 words) - 15:43, 11 February 2023
- Based on his studies, Burt concluded that heredity plays a greater role in the development of intellectual ability than does the environment: ...16 KB (2,386 words) - 06:55, 12 January 2024
- they are composed of cells; pass on their heredity using a nearly universal ... biochemistry. All organisms pass on their heredity via the genetic material ...36 KB (5,345 words) - 01:14, 18 November 2022
- of piscine venoms. Journal of Heredity 97(3):206-217. Fish|32251327|Vertebrate|44396813|Fishery|43819034 Category:Life sciences Category:Fishes ...18 KB (2,549 words) - 06:51, 17 May 2021
- Genetics is the study of heredity, genes, and gene function. Much modern botany has put to use plant DNA and genomic information to study plants ...17 KB (2,438 words) - 19:52, 20 November 2023
- values. He also explored the role played by heredity and environment in shaping a character's fate. These motifs were all prominent in An American ...16 KB (2,526 words) - 17:57, 30 April 2023
- forces (i.e. the environment or heredity) influencing these subjects' actions. In this concern one can see the influence of evolution theory ...16 KB (2,483 words) - 18:12, 13 February 2024
- Many early scientific journals devoted to heredity in general were run by eugenicists and featured eugenics articles alongside studies of heredity ...35 KB (5,140 words) - 04:18, 23 March 2024
- extravagant claims about the power of heredity over experience for thousands of years. The quote, probably Watson's most well-known for, reads: ...19 KB (2,797 words) - 20:40, 1 April 2024
- Prior to Russian contact, Aleut society was a ranked system of heredity classes. There were positions similar to nobles, commoners, and slaves ...17 KB (2,491 words) - 05:11, 17 June 2023
- foreign intercourse, tradition, and heredity. Providence he praised for having "wonderfully separated nationalities not only by woods and ...18 KB (2,775 words) - 14:41, 1 August 2022
- was based on merit and not on favoritism or heredity. Theoretically, any male adult in China, regardless of his wealth or social status, could become ...21 KB (3,072 words) - 15:27, 4 February 2023
- Budgerigar is the common name for small parrots belonging to the species Melopsittacus undulatus. Though budgerigars are often called parakeets ...20 KB (2,994 words) - 18:36, 22 November 2023
- factors such as aging, disease, noise, and heredity. According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (2007), hearing ...23 KB (3,869 words) - 17:32, 12 February 2024
- events: Hazards from natural process. Journal of Heredity 96(2): 1-8. * Maas, P. 2007. Sea mink. The Extinction Website. * Stevenson, W. J. 1945 ...24 KB (3,695 words) - 11:06, 10 March 2023
- . Thus, noble status now depended not on ancient heredity but on loyalty to the Cossack state. Magocsi (1996), 250. Over time, however, Cossack ...25 KB (3,590 words) - 23:40, 6 April 2022
- of experience. Tesser (1993) has argued that heredity variables may affect attitudes, but believes that may do so indirectly. For example, if one ...26 KB (3,918 words) - 18:25, 21 August 2023
- In 1947, Fisher co-founded with Cyril Darlington the journal Heredity: An International Journal of Genetics. Fisher eventually received many awards ...23 KB (3,500 words) - 21:28, 15 August 2022
- in terms of reproductive fitness, units of heredity, or expected number of offspring. When an organism behaves altruistically, it reduces its own ...27 KB (4,209 words) - 08:39, 23 July 2023
- Thomas Hunt Morgan accomplish his studies on heredity. Morgan described X-linked inheritance, which confirmed that genes exist on chromosomes. He also ...25 KB (3,676 words) - 09:54, 3 December 2023
- in cycas seemannii A. Br. (Cycadaceae). Journal of Heredity 93: 133-139. * Norstog, K. J., and T. J. Nicholls. 1997. Biology of Cycads. Ithaca ...26 KB (3,809 words) - 06:52, 12 January 2024
- anthropological studies and research into heredity, using inmates for human ... part intended to prove the supremacy of heredity over environment and thus ...58 KB (8,390 words) - 00:12, 25 October 2021
- system based on merit rather than heredity, and the employment of political principles according to the individual situation. Kaibara Ekken introduced ...28 KB (4,111 words) - 09:55, 1 April 2024
- selected the crown prince based on heredity. The crown sometimes passed ... with one assuming the position through heredity and another appointed centrally ...53 KB (7,699 words) - 00:10, 14 November 2023
- with the re-discovered theory of Mendelian heredity to create the modern synthesis, which is the prevailing paradigm of evolutionary theory. ...68 KB (10,248 words) - 19:33, 21 October 2021
- nations, and all show an influence from both heredity and environment (in roughly equal proportion). A person's ratings on the five factors ...35 KB (5,056 words) - 17:58, 26 March 2023
- in insect and vertebrate brain development. Heredity 94(5): 465–77. PMID 15770230. * Marieb, E. N. and K. Hoehn. 2010. Human Anatomy & Physiology ...36 KB (5,328 words) - 04:33, 11 March 2023
- === Heredity === Most forms of cancer are sporadic, meaning that there is no inherited cause of the cancer. There are, however, a number of recognized ...90 KB (13,223 words) - 19:16, 25 November 2023
- Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is the common name for a long-legged, fast-running New World wild cat (family Felidae), characterized by a slender ...32 KB (4,927 words) - 07:51, 13 January 2023
- from protection of life, through protection of heredity, to protection of freedom, protection of law, and finally protection of property. As interesting ...37 KB (5,883 words) - 02:58, 19 April 2023
- identified as significant to select heredity rather than environment as the cause of crime. However, family, twin, and adoption studies have ...34 KB (4,876 words) - 06:24, 11 January 2024
- DNA's role in heredity was confirmed in 1953, when Alfred Hershey ... is held within genes. A gene is a unit of heredity and is a region of DNA that ...74 KB (10,725 words) - 07:36, 12 January 2024
- Genomic ancestry of the American puma. Journal of Heredity 91(3) (2000): 186–197. * Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), New York ...41 KB (6,179 words) - 00:14, 15 January 2023
- workers. The governments may be based on heredity, religion, military power, work projects (such as canal building), food distribution, land ...41 KB (6,075 words) - 22:26, 10 December 2023
- Evidence for a recent population expansion," Heredity 95(2005), issue 3: 206-215. PMID 16030528. IUCN/SSC Pigs, Peccaries, and Hippos Specialist ...43 KB (6,299 words) - 15:51, 25 January 2023
- emperor granted his retirement but denied the heredity of his fief. In reaction, the two other generals decided to petition for their own retirements ...45 KB (7,044 words) - 07:44, 3 July 2022
- master-key to modern problems," including heredity. [http://www.blavatskytrust.org.uk/html/wr_reincarnation.htm "Theosophy--Modern Presentations: ...49 KB (7,494 words) - 19:39, 16 April 2023
- knowledge and ability than upon heredity. In addition, separation of the Eastern Cherokee, who had not participated in the removal and remained ...50 KB (7,562 words) - 14:54, 5 December 2023
- and instead believed that, at most, heredity should be taken into consideration by people seeking potential mates. In 1883, after Darwin's ...55 KB (8,376 words) - 23:18, 22 January 2023
- #Heredity: Inherited wounds; Unresolved family issues; Misperceptions; Mental filters; Predilection for rejection. #Temperament: Hypersensitive; ...91 KB (13,332 words) - 16:14, 25 January 2023