genetic endowment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgeneticandendowment
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genetic
adjective
uk/dʒəˈnet.ɪk/us/dʒəˈnet̬.ɪk/
belonging or relating to genes (= parts of the DNA in cells) received by each animal or plant from ...
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endowment
noun
uk/ɪnˈdaʊ.mənt/us/ɪnˈdaʊ.mənt/
money that is given to a college, hospital, etc. in order to provide it with an income, or the giving of ...
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This paper makes a contribution to the literature on the relationship between familygeneticendowmentand health-related behaviours on several levels.
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By using independent samples, we avoid correlations which would represent only sharedgeneticendowment.
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Clearly, we require alternative sources of evidence if we are to determine the precise nature of the child'sgeneticendowmentfor language.
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As such, this paper evaluates the relationship between familygeneticendowmentand health-related behaviours and is organized as follows.
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Competing theoretical perspectives exist as to howgeneticendowmentshould affect participation in health-related behaviours.
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However, in the nutrient-filled field, there will be considerably variability in plant height that is primarily determined by thegeneticendowmentof the plant.
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On the one hand, poorgeneticendowmentmight lead to behaviours that reduce the risk of developing a chronic disease.
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Historically,geneticendowmentwas a lottery, but now it is becoming a product.
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Put differently, ourgeneticendowmentdoes not have to take the form of a mental grammar, present at birth.
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The simple reason is that the child'sgeneticendowmentat birth is entirely unaffected by the state of the linguistic environment.
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In brief, it is not clear that the ' no negative evidence ' assumption provides any useful information about the child'sgeneticendowment.
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Nonetheless, the developmental pathway fromgeneticendowmentto normal or abnormal performance will neither be simple nor independent from an understanding of the neural networks themselves.
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Defined through a given set of genes, the immune self would then take on a specific character, one given by the particular sequence of an individual'sgeneticendowment.
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The reason why people who live closely together can understand each other is because they share ageneticendowment(by virtue of being human) and common (linguistic) experience.
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Moreover, recent findings in human biology have shown that whilegeneticendowmentis an important determinant of height at the individual level, in the aggregate genetic factors are less important.
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On the one hand, they share 50 % of variance in theirgeneticendowmentand to a degree they have the same experiences in growing up (shared environment).
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Belsky has proposed that some individuals have traits and developmental trajectories that are more fixed by theirgeneticendowment, while others are more plastic and susceptible to rearing influence.
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Until recently, we have all been subject to the lottery of ourgeneticendowment.
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It is, one might say, ourgeneticendowment.
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They are academically less bright by reason of a lesser basicgeneticendowment.
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