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breeding breeding
breeding in agriculture and animal husbandry , propagation of plants and animals by sexual reproduction ; usually based on selection of parents with desirable traits to produce improved progeny. In conventional breeding, progeny inherit genes for both desirable and undesirable traits from both... Read more
Robert Bakewell Robert Bakewell
Robert Bakewell 1725-95, English livestock breeder and agriculturist. He successfully bred livestock for meat rather than appearance, developing new breeds, which included the Leicester sheep and the Dishley, or New Leicestershire, longhorn cattle. He introduced the progeny test for selective... Read more
hybrid dysgenesis hybrid dysgenesis
hybrid dysgenesis Infertility and an increased incidence of chromosome mutations that is observed in the progeny of laboratory-reared organisms crossed with wild organisms. Hybrid dysgenesis has been best studied in strains of Drosophila fruit flies, when laboratory females are crossed with wild... Read more
descent descent
descent in anthropology, method of classifying individuals in terms of their various kinship connections. Matrilineal and patrilineal descent refer to the mother's or father's sib (or other group), respectively. Bilateral descent refers to descent derived from both sibs equally. Descent groups are... Read more
knockout knockout
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Ann Beattie , 1947-, American writer, b. Washington, D.C. She gained attention in the early 1970s with short stories in The New Yorker magazine and won acclaim with the 1976 publication of her novel Chilly Scenes of Winter and her story collection Distortions, both chronicling with ironic wit... Read more
San Jose scale San Jose scale
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Valentinus Valentinus
Valentinus , fl. c.135-c.160, founder of the Valentinians, the most celebrated of the Gnostic sects (see Gnosticism ) of the 2d cent. The little that is known of his life is found in the works of early Christian theologians who refuted him, such as St. Irenaeus and Clement of Alexandria. Probably... Read more
phenotype phenotype
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VETERANS FLASH BACK TO '68, MINUS TEAR GAS, TURMOIL.(News)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer ...Hippie icons and their progeny yesterday offered a nostalgic...be labeled one of the progeny,'' said Hoffman...kitchen in Boston. But among the fans buying $20...appeared like extras in a Marx Brothers movie and began removing...
Family connections; Seeing nepotism's good, over time and from...
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times (Washington, DC) ...interesting - with the progeny of the famous who now...rise in America, both among the celebrities and via...overclass" that provides its progeny with enormous genetic...known and talented Marx Brothers.) "Nepotismo" first...
COLUMN: Has Osama escaped? Bin Laden walks
News Wire article from: University Wire ...by sea." Osama? Loose? Perhaps among us? I was terrified. I asked Sen...in Afghanistan. It's as if the Marx Brothers were conducting the hunt for al Qaeda...interpretation of the Koran and numerous progeny, I doubt he's much of a masturbater...

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