What's the difference between kind and polygenous?
Kind
Definition:
(superl.) Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.
(superl.) Having feelings befitting our common nature; congenial; sympathetic; as, a kind man; a kind heart.
(superl.) Showing tenderness or goodness; disposed to do good and confer happiness; averse to hurting or paining; benevolent; benignant; gracious.
(superl.) Proceeding from, or characterized by, goodness, gentleness, or benevolence; as, a kind act.
(superl.) Gentle; tractable; easily governed; as, a horse kind in harness.
(a.) Nature; natural instinct or disposition.
(a.) Race; genus; species; generic class; as, in mankind or humankind.
(a.) Nature; style; character; sort; fashion; manner; variety; description; class; as, there are several kinds of eloquence, of style, and of music; many kinds of government; various kinds of soil, etc.
(v. t.) To beget.
Example Sentences:
(1) Power urges the security council to "take the kind of credible, binding action warranted."
(2) The origins of aging of higher forms of life, particularly humans, is presented as the consequence of an evolved balance between 4 specific kinds of dysfunction-producing events and 4 kinds of evolved counteracting effects in long-lived forms.
(3) We’re learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
(4) Two kinds of silicafiberscopes with outer diameters 0.80 and 0.45 mm were used in the present study.
(5) Among the 295 nonpathogenic strains, 115 were sensitive to all antibiotics whereas the rest were resistant to 1-5 kinds of antibiotics.
(6) The choice is partly technical – what kind of trading arrangement do we want with the EU?
(7) Further, metastatic tumors were capable of being successfully grown in a high percentage of cases, which was comparable to the results obtained for other kinds of tumors.
(8) The size of Florida makes the kind of face-to-face politics of the earlier contests impossible, requiring instead huge ad spending.
(9) Once the temperature rises above 28C, shoppers' behaviour changes in all kinds of ways, according to Jones.
(10) High score on the hysteria scale of Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire was a risk indicator for all kinds of back pain.
(11) Looks like some kind of dissent, with Ameobi having words with Phil Dowd at the kick off after Liverpool's second goal.
(12) Intoxications arising from therapeutic activities pertaining to this cult are of the same kind as those encountered in the practice of Modern Medicine.
(13) A certain amount of relaparotomies after small bowel surgery is caused by technical failures, such as the technique of suturing the anastomosis and the kind of re-establishing the continuity of the bowel.
(14) I believe that what we need is a nonviolent national general strike of the kind that has been more common in Europe than here.
(15) The authors have analyzed their observations of 113 patients and concluded that it is necessary to differentially use various kinds of osteosynthesis and bone autoplasty.
(16) This factor was named interleukin-8 (IL-8) since it is produced by various kinds of cells in response to inflammatory stimuli including LPS, IL-1 and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and has pleiotropic effects on T lymphocytes and basophils as well as neutrophils.
(17) Both kinds of experiments show that 1, 25-(OH)2D3 has effects on embryonic bone which are typical for high concentrations of parathyroid hormone (PTH).
(18) Originally, it was to be named Le Reve, after one of the Picassos that Wynn and his wife own; but, as of last month, it is to be called Wynn Las Vegas, embodying a dream of a different kind.
(19) The results showed the kind of needling sensation while acupuncture had close relation with the appearance of PSM and the acupuncture effect.
(20) Will African film-makers tell those kind of films differently?
Polygenous
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of, or containing, many kinds; as, a polygenous mountain.
Example Sentences:
(1) When power-transformed scores are used to eliminate skewness, there is evidence for one distribution and it is not possible to distinguish single gene from multifactorial (polygenic or cultural) inheritance.
(2) The polygenic control of diabetogenesis in NOD mice, in which a recessive gene linked to the major histocompatibility complex is but one of several controlling loci, suggests that similar polygenic interactions underlie this type of diabetes in humans.
(3) Inheritance of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) is polygenic, and at least one of the genes conferring susceptibility to diabetes is tightly linked to the MHC.
(4) The M16 line of mice, selected for rapid postweaning gain, exhibits polygenically controlled obesity and hyperphagia.
(5) The maximum lifespan potential is a constitutional feature of speciation and must be subject to polygenic controls acting both in the domain of development and in the domain of the maintenance of macromolecular integrity.
(6) The pattern of familial clusters and the recurrence risk related to the number of affected relatives and to the severity of the disorder in the index patients support the theory of polygenic inheritance, a multifactorial-threshold aetiological model.
(7) The results showed that the low rate of bacterial clearance was recessive, that the rate of clearance was under polygenic control, and that an H-2-linked gene(s) plays a major role.
(8) The results are discussed in terms of 3 models: Lerner's concept of genetical homeostasis, additive and overdominance polygenic models.
(9) The writers agree with Mr Jiang sanduo's opinion that schizophrenic is a polygenic disease with a major dominant gene.
(10) Conditions such as these may be exclusively monogenic, polygenic or environmental, but in most cases both genetic and environmental factors are involved.
(11) The cultural model, the polygenic model, and the pseudopolygenic model share the common feature that all factors which are transmitted from parent to offspring may be represented by one parameter without any loss of information.
(12) The breeding genetic distance measure of a single locus (Carlson & Welch, 1977) is extended to polygenic traits.
(13) Polygenic variation can be maintained by a balance between mutation and stabilizing selection.
(14) Subsequent variance components analysis suggested that unmeasured polygenic loci and unmeasured shared environmental factors together account for at least an additional 36.7% of the variability in normalized fasting plasma glucose, with genes alone accounting for at least 27.3%.
(15) The posited codominant alleles represent the first single-locus component in the polygenic complexes creating susceptibility to seizures and epitomizes the small additive effects classically attributed to such genes.
(16) A new test of goodness of fit for the polygenic threshold model is proposed.
(17) Some of the abnormalities are due to detectable chromosome anomalies, while the majority of fetal abnormalities arise as a result of the interaction of polygenes and environmental factors.
(18) A general linear model of combined polygenic-cultural inheritance is described.
(19) At present, the strongest evidence is for a polygenic effect, not the effect of a single gene or gene locus.
(20) With non significant changes in triglycerides and HDL-C. We conclude that PP can be used as a complement of diet in the management of polygenic hypercholesterolemia.