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Synonyms: progeny, issue
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offspring - something that comes into existence as a result; "industrialism prepared the way for acceptance of the French Revolution''s various socialistic offspring"; ...
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A ratio of progeny phenotypes reflecting the operation of Mendel's laws.
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All of these progeny cells remain attached to each other by cytoplasmic bridges. The bridges remain until sperm are fully differentiated.
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Related Terms: Progeny
The subsequent generation following a mating or crossing of parents; offspring.
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Definition: The progeny of self-pollinated F1 generation plants.
Related Resources: Chromosomes and Gender
Chromosomes are long, stringy aggregates of genes that carry heredity information.
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Daubert and its progeny have significantly affected the standards for admissibility of scientific evidence under Rule 702. But these decisions were issued by the Supreme Court under its supervisory power and are, thus, binding only on federal courts.
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0505 in the next generation because of the chance production of a few more or less progeny of each genotype. In the second generation, there is another sampling error based on the new gene frequency, so the frequency of "a" may go from 0.0505 to 0.
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The mixture of sperm and egg resulted in progeny that were a "blend" of two parents' characteristics. Sex cells are known collectively as gametes (gamos, Greek, meaning marriage).
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to the next they begin to diverge, not because they're mixing up their genes but because of accumulating mutations, so that as time goes on, you might have mitochondrial chromosome of a particular type which is then left to many, many progeny in the ...
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When Drosophila males of the P cytotype are crossed with females of the M cytotype, progeny exhibit a complex of abnormal traits (male sterility, frequent mutations, chromosome breaks and rearrangements, distorted segregation).
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Relative fitness is quantified as the average number of surviving progeny of a particular genotype compared with average number of surviving progeny of competing genotypes after a single generation, i.e. one genotype is normalized at
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The number of recombinants divided by the total number of progeny. The recombination frequency is proportional to the physical distance between two genetic markers, ...
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an inheritance pattern in which all the progeny have the genotype and phenotype of the maternal parent
Source: Jenkins, John B. 1990. Human Genetics, 2nd Edition. New York: Harper & Row
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One exception: culturing human epithelial stem cells and using their differentiated progeny to replace a damaged cornea. This works best when the stem cells are from the patient (e.g. from the other eye).
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phenotypic ratio The relative numbers of progeny in each phenotypic category produced by a genetic cross.
pheromone Chemical substance released by one organism that influences the behavior or physiological processes of another organism.
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daughter plants. Vegetative progeny of strawberry plants; plants that develop along the runners produced by another strawberry plant called the mother plant.
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Viruses consist of nucleic acid covered by protein; some animal viruses are also surrounded by membrane. Inside the infected cell, the virus uses the synthetic capability of the host to produce progeny virus.
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The resulting mouse will be chimaeric but, if you are lucky (and if you've gotten this far, you obviously are), its germ cells will carry the deleted gene. A few rounds of careful breeding can then produce progeny in which both copies of the gene ...
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