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| | Biological Correlates of being Gay - Biological Determinism? |
 | | In both cases, interest is in the biological basis of differences in human behavior (intelligence, sexual orientation). | | | So this study may give some insights to the biological basis of sexual orientation in humans, but it is only a first step in understanding the biological basis of these behaviors; the paper is in fact extremely modest in what it claims. | | | Biological Correlates of being Gay - Biological Determinism? |
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http://www.utexas.edu/courses/bio301d/Topics/Gay/Text.html
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| | Tomfolio.com: Psychology and Self Help, Biological Psychology |
| | Biological Psychology Hardcover; 2nd Printing 8vo; 381/index pages; Fast response to direct inquirys & requests for photos. | | | Spanish translation from the German of the flamboyant (and sometimes fraudulent) philosopher and biologist who popularized Darwin's work in Germany although he himself believed in a Lamarckian inheritance of acquired characteristics. | | | Haeckel was one of the first to consider psychology as a branch of physiology. |
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http://www.tomfolio.com/bookssub.asp?subid=3862
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| | Luther Lee Bernard: The Significance of Environment as a Social Factor. |
| | Any effective explanation must fall back either upon a theory of environmental domination of selection for inheritance on a Mendelian basis, or upon some adequate account of the direct effects of environment upon individual traits and social organization, which results are to be explained as transmitted socially rather than biologically. | | | With the elimination of these two large classes of traits from the possibility of inheritance under the Mendelian conception of heredity's inheritance as a biological and a psycho-social concept is greatly diminhed and that of environment is of necessity correspondingly increased. | | | The external transmission of mental, moral, and social traits from parent to offspring is much more difficult to explain to the relatively uninformed in science than is the crude inheritance theory based on the simple reproduction concept. |
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| | Evolution in Four Dimensions : Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life (Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology) - Eva Jablonka, Marion J. Lamb |
| | Genetic (DNA), epigenetic (non-DNA chemical), behavioral (learning/assimilating), and symbolic (language, theory) information transmission are important in many levels of biological organization, from the structure of the cell to the social organization of masses of ants and humans. | | | Subtitling their 1995 book "The Lamarckian Dimension" was about as in-your-face a flaunt on orthodoxy imaginable, and I was surprised that the book turned out to be quite a credible review of our understanding of epigenetic inheritance. | | | it exemplifies the need for new fields of epigenetic medicine and epidemiology). |
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| | Biological inheritance - Free Encyclopedia |
| | Biological inheritance is the process by which an offspring cell or organism acquires or becomes predisposed to characteristics of its parent cell or organism. | | | The study of biological inheritance is called genetics, which includes also epigenetics. | | | Through inheritance, variations exhibited by individuals can accumulate and cause a species to evolve. |
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| | Graphics Gallery |
| | biological inheritance influences what and who we are. | | | From the existing techniques of DNA cloning to gene therapy: understanding the present and a look at the future of genetic engineering. | | | Eucaryotic cell duplication: how chromosomes and genes transmit the information from one mother cell to subsequent generations. |
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| | Biological inheritance Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com |
| | Biological inheritance is the process by which a living organism produces a new organism with many of the same traits as itself. | | | Variation in inheritance is a fundamental concept in Darwin's theory of evolution. | | | While this type of inheritance is fundamental to the distinctions made among the various domains of life, new instances of heretible structural variation are rare. |
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http://www.wikiwhat.com/encyclopedia/b/bi/biological_inheritance.html
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| | YGM 2004 Abstract #418A |
| | While prions have revived the concept that biological structures themselves are capable of 'encoding' biological information, additional phenomena show prions to be just one type of structural inheritance. | | | The first structures (and phenotypes) we are examining using this protocol are the vacuole (strontium-sensitivity) and the peroxisome (inability to grow when the sole carbon source is a fatty acid) but this approach should also be applicable to any non-essential yeast structure whose loss results in a phenotype. | | | A genomic method for identification of structures in yeast which are incapable of self-assembly. |
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http://www.yeastgenome.org/community/meetings/yeast04/abshtml/418A.html
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| | Biological inheritance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Biological inheritance is the process by which an offspring cell or organism acquires or becomes predisposed to characteristics of its parent cell or organism. | | | The study of biological inheritance is called genetics, which includes also epigenetics. | | | Genetic or Mendelian inheritance results from DNA replication and cell division. |
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| | Inheritance - Adoption Encyclopedia |
| | Although it would seem logical that a child adopted by nonrelatives would inherit from the adoptive parents and not from birthparents (and indeed this is true in most cases), there are many ramifications of the laws regarding inheritances, and statutes vary from state to state. | | | Generally, an adopted child inherits from adoptive parents and may not inherit from biological parents unless specifically named in a will; however, in the states of Colorado, Louisiana, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont and Wyoming, the adopted person's right to inherit from birthparents and birth relatives is retained. | | | Although an adopted person may inherit from adoptive parents, whether or not the adopted person will also inherit from adoptive grandparents is not always clear and depends on state laws. |
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http://encyclopedia.adoption.com/entry/inheritance/186/1.html
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| | Mitotyping Technologies, LLC |
| | Because of its usefulness when limited biological material is available, and due to its unique pattern of maternal inheritance, mtDNA is playing a significant role in investigation and prosecution of active criminal cases, post-conviction exoneration, re-examination of cold cases, genealogical studies where maternal relatedness is in question, and missing persons investigations. | | | When forensic cases arise where there is insufficient biological material for nuclear DNA typing, mitochondrial DNA analysis can provide valuable supplemental information, even from such limited samples as half-centimeter long hair fragments or single teeth. | | | We invite you to read and download our website page titled About Mitochondrial DNA for an excellent summary of how mitochondrial forensic analysis is carried out. |
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| | Mendelian inheritance |
| | Before Gregor Mendel formulated his theories of genetics in 1865, the prevailing theory of biological inheritance was that of blending inheritance, in which the sperm and egg of parent organisms contained a sampling of the parent's "essence" and that they somehow blended together to form the pattern for the offspring. | | | Based on many years of careful, tedious breeding experiments, Mendel developed several fundamental laws of Mendelian inheritance. | | | OMIM Entry for Adiposis Dolorosa (Dercum's Disease) This OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man) site uses some very limited research (2 papers dealing with 3 families) to conclude that this may be an inherited illness. |
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http://www.serebella.com/encyclopedia/article-Mendelian_inheritance.html
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| | Encyclopedia: Structural inheritance |
| | Various additional examples of structural inheritance are presented in the recent book Origination of Organismal Form. | | | Structural inheritance is the transmission of a trait in a living organism by a self-perpetuating spatial structures. | | | Some other organelles may also demonstrate structural inheritance, and the cell itself (defined by the plasma membrane) may also be an example of structural inheritance. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Structural-inheritance
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| | Learn more about Biological inheritance in the online encyclopedia. |
| | Biological inheritance is the process by which a living organism produces a new organism with many of the same traits as itself. | | | Variation in inheritance is a fundamental concept in Darwin's theory of evolution. | | | Structural inheritance refers to the relative position of biomolecules and the need to use an existing structure as a template to produce a new copy of that structure. |
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| | inheritance |
| | See also Biological inheritance and Inheritance (computer science) | | | Gender roles are profoundly affected by traditional inheritance laws. | | | Inheritance is the practice of passing on property, titles, debts, and obligations upon the death of an individual. |
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| | Maternal Inheritance and Maternal Effects |
| | This is the biological basis of maternal inheritance. | | | In comparison to traits controlled by maternal effects, those traits controlled by maternal inheritance, the female phenotype is always expressed in its offspring. | | | Variegation in four o'clock plant and maternal inheritance |
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| | epigenetic inheritance: Information From Answers.com |
| | Epigenetic inheritance occurs in the development of multicellular organisms: dividing fibroblasts for instance give rise to new fibroblasts (rather than some other cell type) even though their genome is identical to that of all other cells. | | | Epigenetic inheritance systems (EISs) allow cells of different phenotype but identical genotype to transmit their phenotype to their offspring, even when the phenotype-inducing stimuli are absent, as is often the case. | | | Orthodox theories on biological evolution hold that the only role the environment plays is in the phase of selection: the environment determines on what grounds selection takes place and what characteristics are necessary for better reproduction opportunities. |
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| | PAG-V: W20 - POLAR OVERDOMINANCE OF THE CALLIPYGE GENE IN SHEEP ( Ovis aries) |
| | We demonstrate in this work that the callipyge phenotype is characterized by a non- mendelian inheritance pattern, referred to as polar overdominance, where only heterozygous individuals having inherited the callipyge mutation from their sire express the phenotype. | | | Acquiring a molecular understanding of this novel biological phenomenon will contribute to the understanding of complex traits, including those in the human. | | | An inheritable muscular hypertrophy was recently described in sheep and shown to be determined by the callipyge gene mapped to ovine chromosome 18. |
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| | MitoDat - Mendelian Inheritance and the Mitochondrion |
| | The database consolidates information from various biological databases, eg., GenBank, SwissPro, Genome Data Base (GDB), Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM), et al. | | | Because the mitochondrion has a central role in cellular metabolism, it is involved in many human diseases. | | | MitoDat highlights predominantly human nuclear-encoded mitochondrial proteins, although we are including proteins from other animals in addition to those currently known only from yeast and other fungal mitochondria, as well as from plant mitochondria. |
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| | Wegner #1 |
| | Biological inheritance tries to explain the relation among species of living organisms, whereas type inheritance is a design mechanism for software systems | | | In biological inheritance, children have no choice but inherit properties of their parents. | | | Computational inheritance of methods is similar to biological inheritance of genes. |
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| | SENG 609.03 Object Theory: Course Work |
| | Biological inheritance causes children to inherit properties, while children in type inheritance can choose the parent and their properties to inherit. | | | Biological inheritance is scientific hypothesis, while type inheritance is a design mechanism. | | | Biological inheritance occurs at the individuals level, while type inheritance occurs at class level. |
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| | SENG 609.03 Object Theory: Course Work |
| | Biological inheritance causes children to inherit properties, while children in type inheritance can choose the parent and their properties to inherit. | | | Biological inheritance occurs at the individuals level, while type inheritance occurs at class level. | | | Biological inheritance is scientific hypothesis, while type inheritance is a design mechanism. |
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| | Edmund Chattoe: Just How (Un)realistic are Evolutionary Algorithms as Representations of Social Processes? |
| | These same critics also fail to recognise that the technical reasons why Lamarckian inheritance cannot occur in biological systems are not necessarily binding on social systems. | | | For biological evolution, in the absence of Lamarckian inheritance, there is a unique relationship between a genotype and a corresponding phenotype. | | | Finally, although we have so far focused on a pure evolutionary process, we are not obliged to exclude various mechanisms of Lamarckian inheritance in social systems, because it is much easier to see how phenotypic effects can be re-encoded into the genotype when the material of the genotype is everyday language rather than DNA. |
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| | HUMAN NATURE: ONE EVOLUTIONIST'S VIEW |
| | Biological inheritance in humans is very much like that in any other sexually reproducing organism; it is based on the transmission of genetic information encoded in DNA from one generation to the next by means of the sex cells. | | | Cultural inheritance, on the other hand, is based on transmission of information by a teaching-learning process, which is in principle independent of biological parentage. | | | But cultural inheritance is distinctively human, based on transmission of information by a teaching and learning process, which is, in principle independent of biological parentage. |
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| | Controversies in Meme Theory |
| | Although this is untrue for biological systems, something like Lamarckian inheritance may exist for cultural systems. | | | Lamarckian heredity is now widely rejected as the mechanism for inheritance within biological systems (although there have been occasional scares, see Dawkins, (1982) [17]. | | | Put simply, the view that a blacksmith's son will inherit the developed arm muscles of the blacksmith, is as simply untrue as the idea that a dog which loses a leg will give birth to three legged puppies. |
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| | inheritance - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Inheritance : Biological Sciences Dictionary [ home, info ] | | | inheritance : Science and Biotechnology [ home, info ] | | | Phrases that include inheritance : inheritance tax, mendelian inheritance, cytoplasmic inheritance, blending inheritance, particulate inheritance, more... |
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| | IngentaConnect Conceptual change in the classroom: Teaching young children to un... |
| | The phenomenon of biological inheritance is a promising one in which to study children's learning of a system of knowledge, for it engages concerns over how understanding individual facts is related to having more broadly coherent frameworks of understanding. | | | For those preschoolers who do not already understand biological inheritance, the construction of such an understanding could well entail a reorganization of which facts are at the causal core of their explanations of how and why offspring tend to resemble their parents. | | | This is a study of the feasibility of teaching a causal theoretical understanding of biological inheritance to young children. |
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