A trait or disease is called heritable if monozygotic twins are more similar to each other than dizygotic twins. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
As evolution is defined as heritable allelic changes over time, if sufficient time does not pass, evolution may not happen. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution] Reference
Bouchard and colleagues used the words "heritable" and "heritability" to describe their results. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius in All of Us] Reference
"heritable" should never be used so casually in a New York Times article, for the very simple reason that it does not mean what non-scientists think it means. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius in All of Us] Reference
This was the case when the heritable jurisdictions in. From Wordnik.com. [Is Ulster Right?] Reference
Perhaps this is a heritable trait, or a teachable one. From Wordnik.com. [The Elvenbane]
If the mutation occurs in a germ cell, the effect is heritable. From Wordnik.com. [Toxicity] Reference
Fancy tails and other decorations didn't suddenly become more heritable. From Wordnik.com. [The Science Wars] Reference
The primal qualities of a family, a race, a nation are heritable qualities. From Wordnik.com. [Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading A compendium of valuable information and wise suggestions that will inspire noble effort at the hands of every race-loving man, woman, and child.] Reference
That suggests that "there is a heritable component to addiction," says Kreek. From Wordnik.com. [How It All Starts Inside Your Brain] Reference
Note the importance of heritable genetic variation — the fuel for evolution. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution] Reference
But most agree that IQ tests measure something real and substantially heritable. From Wordnik.com. [Testing The Science Of Intelligence] Reference
Erskine, (as already noticed at page 213,) both in his title and heritable offices. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)] Reference
Geneticists have shown that ADHD is one of the most heritable psychiatric diseases known. From Wordnik.com. [Understanding ADHD -- Willingham] Reference
I mean, he notes that IQ, for example, is, by most studies, around .5 or .4 or .6 heritable. From Wordnik.com. [The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology] Reference
People look a lot like their parents, so it's clear that facial features are highly heritable. From Wordnik.com. [To Sketch a Thief: Genes Draw Likeness of Suspects] Reference
Graph indicating relationships between variation in a heritable trait with a measure of fitness. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution] Reference
The researchers found that in-degree, transitivity and centrality are "significantly heritable.". From Wordnik.com. [Genes and the Friends You Make] Reference
I believe that further work will prove that the resistance is heritable, for the following reasons. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919] Reference
If quiet is a heritable trait, and we got quiet from my father, then we got confidence from my mother. From Wordnik.com. [Sen. Harry Reid: The Good Fight] Reference
(Under current law, 401 (k) balances are fully heritable, although they are subject to the income tax.). From Wordnik.com. [Eyeing Your Pension] Reference
Fragile X gets a lot of attention because it is the most common heritable cause of cognitive disability. From Wordnik.com. [Harold Pollack: Slaying Himself with the Jawbone of an Ass: Michael Savage on Autism] Reference
Sir Allan whispered me, that the laird could not be persuaded, that he had lost his heritable jurisdiction. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides] Reference
To the extent that a trait is determined by genes, rather than the environment, the trait will be heritable. From Wordnik.com. [Natural selection] Reference
CLONINGER: We've studied the inheritance of ambition persistence and found that it's about 50 percent heritable. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 7, 2005] Reference
Political power became a private, heritable property for great lords and counts, in the apt words of Joseph R. Strayer. From Wordnik.com. [c. 787-925] Reference
These heritable changes are thought to provide some level of protection against toxicity caused by PCBs and similar chemicals. From Wordnik.com. [PCBs] Reference
Similarly, height is a physical trait that's at least 80% heritable, yet no one has managed to develop a DNA-based test for it. From Wordnik.com. [To Sketch a Thief: Genes Draw Likeness of Suspects] Reference
In one instance it was shown that tumor production relates to s single heritable modification which was initiated in the hybrid. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge] Reference
If fitness increases in proportion to the size of the heritable trait, the trait is described as experiencing directional selection. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution] Reference
But psychiatrists are now detecting it much earlier, especially in kids with a family history since the disorder is so highly heritable. From Wordnik.com. [Troubled Souls] Reference
This variation in the trait is at least partially heritable (i.e., it has a genetic basis that is passed from parents to offspring), and. From Wordnik.com. [Natural selection] Reference
The position of big men was generally not heritable, though sons of big men, if they were able, had an advantage over other competitors. From Wordnik.com. [F. The Pacific Region, 1513-1798] Reference
But if we adopt the hypothesis of a heritable protoplasmic variation -- something in their "blood," so to speak, the explanation is easy. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919] Reference
The most confident assertions of the effects of use and disuse in modifying the heritable type, appear to rest on this indefeasible basis. From Wordnik.com. [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference
Macleod very sensibly observed, that taking away the heritable jurisdictions had not been of such service in the islands, as was imagined. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides] Reference
In October 1985, he was reading a government report on technologies for detecting heritable mutations, such as those in the survivors of Hiroshima. From Wordnik.com. [Decoding The Human Body] Reference
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