A characteristic or condition that is determined by one's genes. The color of an animal's coat and the shape of a plant's leaves are physical traits. Nesting in birds and burrowing in rodents are examples of behavioral traits. The American Heritage® Student Science Dictionary, Second Editio...
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This article focusses on the distinguishing traits of language teaching/learning in translation training programmes in Spain. More pointedly, it aims to bring into sharp relief the need to chart this field as an area of language instruction in its own right as well as to sketch a though-throug...
In the meantime, thriving Spanish colonies had been established in Mexico, the West Indies, and South America. These travelers to North America came in small, unmercifully overcrowded craft. During their six- to twelve-week voyage, they survived on barely enough food allotted to them. Many of...
Individuals are different in a relatively constant pattern of thoughts, feeling, and behaviors, which are called personality traits. Mental health is a condition of well-being in which people may reach their full potential and deal effectively with stres
There are mean differences in complex traits among global human populations. We hypothesize that part of the phenotypic differentiation is due to natural selection. To address this hypothesis, we assess the differentiation in allele frequencies of trait-
(table 9 ). this suggests that the true nature of the link between the thresholds is almost a homothetic translation in sheep and that the distributions of litter size classes are not independent but linked by a strong common law. it also means that the concept of sensitivity thresholds,...
The measurement of mammary gland LPL activity and LPL mRNA levels in goats with different LPL G50C genotypes might be a very useful experimental approach for answering this question. Acknowledgments This work was funded by a grant of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology (AGL2002-04304-...
In certain periods and places, it was also believed that Ajaw K’in could perish from a lack of blood offerings. A thousand years later, according to Spanish chroniclers, this belief among the Aztec kings resulted in human sacrifice on a massive scale. To ensure a constant supply of blood...
Selection for increasing intramuscular fat content would definitively improve the palatability and juiciness of pig meat as well as the sensorial and organoleptic properties of cured products. However, evidences obtained in human and model organisms sugg