heritable variation

collocation in English

meaningsofheritableandvariation

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heritable
adjective
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/ˈher.ɪ.tə.bəl/us
/ˈher.ɪ.t̬ə.bəl/
A heritable disease or characteristic can be passed from a parent or grandparent to a child through ...
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variation
noun
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/ˌveə.riˈeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌver.iˈeɪ.ʃən/
a change in amount ...
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Increasedheritablevariationfollowing population bottlenecks : the role of dominance.
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Such genotype by environment interactions can help maintainheritablevariationin natural populations.
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Finally, looking at fitness consequences ofheritablevariation, the intensity of natural selection at each level needs to be considered.
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Heritablevariationand heterozygosity under a balance between mutation and stabilizing selection.
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For this process to account forheritablevariation, there must be some mechanism that causes divergence.
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The multivariate probability forheritablevariationin growth in each cohort is highly significant.
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Such biobehavioral differences in strains are likely due, at least in par t, toheritablevariationin the alleles that regulate stress responsive biological systems in these animals.
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Thus, cladistic analysis provides us with living relative species with which we can test the hypothesis that there is aheritablevariationfor social cognition that increases fitness.
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Belsky, by contrast, focuses onheritablevariationin susceptibility to rearing influence and does not specify environmental antecedents of this variation.
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Parasite stress may increase the expression of individual differences in resistance (and, thereby,heritablevariationin fitness), meaning increased fitness gains from female choice for diseaseresistant mates.
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In beetles, artificial selection experiments have shown that there isheritablevariationfor length of death-feigning.
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Twin and family studies have shown a substantial genetic component to this disorder, withheritablevariationestimated at 50 to 70%.
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By the 1920s, statistical methods were developed to analyze gene action and distinguishheritablevariationfrom variation caused by environment.
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The only widespread agreement on characters seems to be that variation used for character analysis should reflectheritablevariation.
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Thisheritablevariationis known from heritability studies based on monozygotic twins.
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While mutation is the ultimate source ofheritablevariation, its permutations and combinations also make a big difference.
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However, what symbiosis provided was a copious supply ofheritablevariationfrom microorganisms, which was fine-tuned over a long period to produce the cell structure we see today.
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As is now obvious, mutations increase the amount ofheritablevariationin a population, and selection is how we describe the differential viability of those variants.
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