Study of heredity

Usage examples of genetics.

The most prestigious scientific institute in Germany, the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Genetics, and Eugenics, the German Research Council, and their extensive biomedical and eugenics research programs, had no qualms about the killing of so-called inferior and polluted races.

Carolina jessamine and poison ivy coaxed to adopt the genetics of bougainvillaea and orchids, tall pines persuaded to stoop to adopt their new crowns of palm fronds.

Both of us were younger and cockier, confident in the bounty of molecular genetics, ready to use science to confound nature.

Maybe Old Mother Nature sets up some kind of overriding counterirritant when the genetics are a bad match.

It is probable that just as the multiplicity and interrelation and minuteness of many factors have been the principal discoveries of genetics in recent years that the next few years will see a great deal of evidence following the important lead of Castle and Jennings, as to variation in factors.

Mary Vaughan set up in the genetics lab at Laurentian, Reuben Montego grabbed some lunch at a Taco Bell, then headed back to St.

From virology to genetics and primate paleobiology, each of the specialties had its own esprit de corps, its own labs, its own pursuits.

Fred Gage, who is co-director of the Laboratory of Genetics at the Salk Institute.

From the narrowest point of view of genetics, the way to solve the liquor problem would be, not to eliminate drink, but to eliminate the drinker: to prevent the reproduction of the degenerate stocks and the tainted strains that contribute most of the chronic alcoholics.

As an ever-increasing number of prospective students were wooed by high-tech careers in biochemistry and genetics, the shortage of classically trained archivists, taxonomists, and systematists big-picture researchers was in danger of undermining the entire foundation of biological science.

It follows from elementary genetics that in a freely mixing and interbreeding population, any new characteristic will tend to be diluted, and will disappear within relatively few generations.

York had been a Linux evangelist, trying to convince everyone in the genetics department that they should abandon Windows and switch instead to the open-source operating system.

Quite apart from the sort of memory that neurobiologists, psychologists and even novelists talk about and with which I am concerned, mathematics and physics, chemistry, molecular biology, genetics, immunology and evolutionary biology, not to mention computer science, all use the term.

We generally now accept that genetics plays a role in the predispositions to these, and other, problems, but we do not have the measurement technology to determine if DNA actually carries, pre-programs, cells to develop the virus itself.

After all, you Shapers are constructed of genes patented by Reshaped genetics firms.