Heredity

There were also scientists who speculated about the role of genetics and heredity.

This song actually veers into slam territory, as does "Heredity Violated" and moments of other songs.

Type 2 diabetes is a common chronic condition that's influenced by numerous factors, including heredity, age, and body weight.

Epidemiologists once insisted that genetic heredity was not a factor in cancer.

Epigenetics is the science of changes to organisms and heredity that are found outside the genetic code of the DNA sequence itself, usually caused by changes to gene expression — in other words, which genes are turned “on” or “off” in each and every cell.

A 1939 article in the Journal of Heredity describes two offspring of a fertile mare mule named "Old Bec", which was owned at the time by the A&M College of Texas (now Texas A&M University ) in the late 1920s.

As historian George Stocking noted, however, Boas's main project was to distinguish between biological and cultural heredity, and to focus on the cultural processes that he believed had the greatest influence over social life.

As Morgan had dismissed both evolutionary theories, he was seeking to prove De Vries' mutation theory with his experimental heredity work.

At the time that Darwin wrote, the principles underlying heredity and variation were poorly understood.

Fatimid dynasty, found in Fustat, Egypt. Brooklyn Museum Unlike western European governments in the era, advancement in Fatimid state offices was based more on merit than on heredity.

He believed that form was achieved for a purpose, citing the regularity of heredity in species as proof.

He divided the territory into sanjaks or districts, and, making no attempt to interfere with the principle of heredity, installed the local chiefs as governors.

He instead believed that any body, once alive, obtained heredity.

He then conceived the idea of heredity units, which he called "factors".

He was initially skeptical of Mendel's laws of heredity (as well as the related chromosomal theory of sex determination), which were being considered as a possible basis for natural selection.

He was in search of a model organism to study genetic heredity and required a species that could randomly acquire genetic mutation that would visibly manifest as morphological changes in the adult animal.

Hippocrates proposed that heredity was important as a cause, described worse outcomes if the disease presents at an early age, and made note of the physical characteristics as well as the social shame associated with it.

However, he also maintained that Herrnstein and Murray overestimated the role of heredity in determining intelligence differences.

In 1873, August Weismann postulated the equivalence of the maternal and paternal germ cells for heredity.

In Brazil, people are classified by appearance, not heredity. citation Scholars disagree over the effects of social status on racial classifications in Brazil.