(n.) The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding.
(n.) Nurture; education; formation of manners.
(n.) Deportment or behavior in the external offices and decorums of social life; manners; knowledge of, or training in, the ceremonies, or polite observances of society.
(n.) Descent; pedigree; extraction.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Department of Herd Health and Ambulatory Clinic of the Veterinary Faculty (State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) has developed the VAMPP package for swine breeding farms.
(2) Angus (A), Charolais (C), Hereford (H), Limousin (L), and Simmental (S) breeds were included in deterministic computer models simulating integrated cow-calf-feedlot production systems.
(3) Affected dogs were from ten breeds and their average age was eight years.
(4) History contains numerous examples of government secrecy breeding abuse.
(5) Over the same period, breeding in drums dropped from 14%-25% to 4.7%, even though the drums were not treated or covered.
(6) The results of this study suggested that there are differences in hormone concentrations that are related to size rather than being the result of differences in physiological maturity of different breeds of cattle.
(7) Heart rates were obtained simultaneously from FM radio transmitters and heart rate monitors externally mounted on unanesthetized and unrestrained mixed-breed goats.
(8) The major plasma lipoprotein of both breeds was high density lipoprotein (HDL) with some low density lipoprotein (LDL) and no very low density lipoprotein (VLDL).
(9) The genetic management of the African green monkey breeding colony was discussed in relation to the difference in distribution of phenotypes of M and ABO blood groups between the parental (wild-originated) and the first filial (colony-born) populations.
(10) On land, the pits' stagnant pools of water become breeding grounds for dengue fever and malaria.
(11) A model is proposed for the study of plant breeding where the self-fertilization rate is of importance.
(12) Urea was determined by means of diacetyl monoxim in the blood cells of 80 cockerels of the initial breed White Leghorn, commercial hybrid Primant.
(13) Beyond 20 mo, weights were adjusted to a constant condition score within breed of sire.
(14) A comparative study was performed for isoelectric and electrophoretic spectra blood serum albumin of parental breeds of chickens and their heterosis hybrids --broiler cocks.
(15) A higher ratio of excitatory to inhibitory neurotransmitter amino acids was always found in all the CNS regions studied in the aggressive breed.
(16) Bactrian camels (63 female female, 8 male male) were used in the breeding season to determine the factors that will induce ovulation.
(17) All the flies were collected from a breeding site inside an abandoned cement building.
(18) In Chinese Meishan pig embryonic mortality appears relatively low compared to European breeds.
(19) Thanks to the groundbreaking technology and heavy investment of a new breed of entertainment retailers offering access services, we are witnessing a revolution in the entertainment industry, benefitting consumers, creators and content owners alike.” ERA acts as a forum for the physical and digital retail sectors of music, and represents over 90% of the of the UK’s entertainment retail market.
(20) Experimentally, the newborn and juvenile matured white A breeded mice of both sexes were used.
Pedigree
Definition:
(n.) A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors.
(n.) A record of the lineage or strain of an animal, as of a horse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pedigree studies have suggested that there may be an inherited predisposition to many apparently nonfamilial colorectal cancers and a genetic model of tumorigenesis in common colorectal cancer has been proposed that includes the activation of dominantly acting oncogenes and the inactivation of growth suppressor genes.
(2) Several pedigrees have been reported in which defects of the insulin gene result in glucose intolerance or diabetes in affected members, but the role of insulin gene mutations in NIDDM is unknown.
(3) Another feature of TWINAN90 is the optional output of a pedigree file which can be read by the quantitative genetics package FISHER.
(4) ESD in conjunction with RB polymorphism would be useful in prenatal and presymptomatic diagnosis, as well as in carrier detection in informative pedigrees.
(5) This paper presents a FORTRAN IV subroutine to calculate inbreeding and kinship coefficients from pedigree information in a diploid population without self-fertilization.
(6) Histologic examination of one patient from each pedigree showed two characteristic findings in corneal epithelium; the previously designated "peculiar substance" in the cells, and the vacuolated homogeneous substance mostly within the cysts.
(7) While Elop has critics who say he did not fix Nokia or much of anything else in his long career in tech, others are likely to point to a pedigree that would also make him the favorite here.
(8) The pedigree analysis provided evidence of both a genetic effect (P less than 0.005) and an effect of increased dietary iron (P less than 0.005) on transferrin saturation and unsaturated iron-binding capacity.
(9) On the other hand, Sillence OI type I segregated with both COL1A1 (17 pedigrees) and COL1A2 (7 pedigrees).
(10) Using 166 pedigrees, reported in nine series available in the literature (including our own), we conclude that balanced insertion cannot entirely explain the familial data, even if we allow for a reduced viability of unbalanced gametes.
(11) To study the genetic influence on serum cholesterol levels and early coronary heart disease, 1,134 individuals were screened from 18 Utah pedigrees.
(12) An informative Dutch pedigree showed that two other linked polymorphic DNA markers, Pi227 and YN5.48, closely flank the FAP locus, one on either side.
(13) Discordant segregation between COL2A1 and the mutant locus was seen in pedigrees with multiple epiphyseal dysplasia, autosomal recessive spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia tarda, hypochondroplasia, pseudoachondroplasia, diaphyseal aclasis, and trichorhinophalangeal syndrome.
(14) Samples originated from eight schizophrenics and 27 relatives belonging to a large pedigree, thus ensuring biological homogeneity.
(15) We describe a codon 299 mutation in the glucokinase gene in a British pedigree with maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY) resulting in a substitution of glycine to arginine.
(16) We have studied five Italian pedigrees segregating schizophrenia using a map of four markers for the chromosomal region 5q11.2-13.3.
(17) Using three markers of chromosome 5, we have studied 28 additional French pedigrees.
(18) The phenotypically and often cytogenetically normal transmitting males in fragile X pedigrees are interpreted not as "nonpenetrant" transmitters of a fully formed fragile X but rather as transmitters of some or all of the factors necessary for TE insertion at Xq27.
(19) The problem has acquired practical importance because of the current international collaboration aimed at constructing a complete human linkage map of DNA markers through the study of three-generation pedigrees.
(20) Linkage analysis with four CMT1A pedigrees mapped the CMT1A gene with respect to two flanking markers (8B10-5 cM[LOD 5.2]-CMT1A-3.5 cM[LOD 5.3]-10E4).