heredity: Something you believe in when your child's report card is all A's. From LearnThat.org. [Unknown]
We need not use the term heredity at all, or if we do, must remember that in the present argument it does not refer to any transmission from the parent. From Wordnik.com. [Hormones and Heredity] Reference
For his discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in heredity, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1933. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas H. Morgan - Biography] Reference
The tendency that we call heredity would simply constantly repeat the past: the tendency to vary would vary the tree out of existence. From Wordnik.com. [Our Unitarian Gospel] Reference
While most things humans do have roots in heredity, could voting and political participation in general be another to add to the list?. From Wordnik.com. [Too Apathetic to Vote? It’s Genetic | Disinformation] Reference
Observation proves the existence among all living beings of phenomena of three kinds, denoted by the terms heredity, variation, and multiplication. From Wordnik.com. [Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02] Reference
Rupert Sheldrake's hypothesis of morphic resonance explains how much of heredity is not based on DNA at all but is a more holistic, field-like phenomenon. From Wordnik.com. [The Memory Hole] Reference
The most interesting thing about him though, was his interest in heredity. From Wordnik.com. [The Hostage to Pleasure Spoiler Thread] Reference
"for his discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in heredity". From Wordnik.com. [Medicine 1933] Reference
An instinct is merely a habit that is stamped into the stuff of our heredity, that is all. From Wordnik.com. [Before Adam] Reference
It is gradually returning to its broader, original meaning of the study of variation and heredity, that is, the origin of the individual's traits. From Wordnik.com. [Applied Eugenics] Reference
But baldness and grey hair on scholars and leaders at the early stage must be something other than heredity, that is, either deep thinking or anxiety. From Wordnik.com. [The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public] Reference
The unconscious mind pervading the body is largely the result of heredity, which is simply the accumulated response to all the environments of past generations. From Wordnik.com. [The Master Key System] Reference
Until continued personality and memory are connected with the idea of heredity, heredity of any kind is little more than a term for something which one does not understand. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Habit] Reference
When the mapping of all genes in humans was completed in 2001, it showed that humans have only around 20,000 of the so-called heredity units, with each gene coding for a protein. From Wordnik.com. [Scientists Reach Midpoint of Protein Study] Reference
My favrorite Lynde-ism: when asked why Nathan Hale was hung, he replied "heredity". From Wordnik.com. [Bonjour, l'etoiles!] Reference
A genius is the result of cumulative heredity, that is, it presents itself by degrees from less genius to greater and still greater and so on. From Wordnik.com. [Five Lectures on Reincarnation] Reference
Morgan (1933) role of chromosomes in heredity. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1901-2000] Reference
Certain risks, such as heredity, can't be avoided. From Wordnik.com. Reference
To use the word "heredity" in such a case is unjustified. From Wordnik.com. [Applied Eugenics] Reference
While it is necessary to point out the importance of "heredity" as. From Wordnik.com. [The Pivot of Civilization] Reference
Perhaps it was that small taint of heredity which is in blood, and makes it thicker than water. From Wordnik.com. [With Edged Tools] Reference
Dark circles have a variety of causes such as heredity, lack of sleep, nutrition and even hormonal imbalance. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
We shall understand him better for remembering the kind of heredity that lay behind him: some seventy generations of nobility, all historic. From Wordnik.com. [The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19] Reference
And it is conceivable that this already developed wisdom in mate-choosing can easily be augmented by a further knowledge of heredity which is now available. From Wordnik.com. [How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science] Reference
After enumerating the primary factors of organic evolution, he places natural selection among his secondary factors, such as heredity, segregation, amixia, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work] Reference
These factors included defective perception and interpretation of the biological observations such as heredity, homeostasis and the concepts such as KARMAPHALA SIDDHANTA. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
When it comes to congenital criminality, we are beginning to murmur something about "heredity"; and, to meet gross national ignorance, we do demand a better system of education. From Wordnik.com. [Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution] Reference
"heredity," his incurable reality, the thing that out of all his being, stands the test of survival and passes on to his children. From Wordnik.com. [Mankind in the Making] Reference
There is no question that heredity leaves some people susceptible. From Wordnik.com. [Understanding Autism] Reference
And there's no question that heredity is a significant source of individual differences in IQ. From Wordnik.com. [Testing The Science Of Intelligence] Reference
But it is well to be on our guard at the outset against the fascinations of any theory of heredity. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Our individual past, quite apart from the arbitrary laws of heredity, makes the road of our future. From Wordnik.com. [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference
My severe hearing loss was caused by aircraft noise in World War II, industrial noise (at a steel plant) and heredity. From Wordnik.com. [MAIL CALL: DEALING WITH HEARING LOSS] Reference
The fact is that there are too many unexplored remainders in the factors of heredity to make it possible to apply the laws definitely. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
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