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Перевод: progeny

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потомство; потомок ; последователи ; ученики ; результат ; исход ; вторичная частица

Тезаурус:

1. If, at times in an ordinary reproductive life, I am moved not only to look after my own progeny but those of my sister as well, then I clearly increase my fitness above that due solely to selfish interests.
2. In biology, one says that where an intermediate type is leaving on average more progeny than others then it is the more "fit".
3. Spontaneous nonlethal mutations (to drug resistance, to a new nutritional requirement, etc) occur in the genomes of multiplying E. coli at frequencies in the range of 1 per 10 4 to 1 per 10 9 new progeny.
4. The example of the United States may be cited in order to refute such a fatalistic approach, but the American colonies were the progeny of the most sophisticated democratic country in the world, and in any case the American republic expanded from a near tabula rasa , politically and geographically speaking.
5. Their numerous wingless progeny weaken and distort young plant growth as they feed, spread virus diseases and produce sticky honeydew which disfigures leaves and encourages sooty mould.
6. Correct decisions on choice will depend to large extent on the type of dam to be mated and the prices that regional and national market outlets will pay for the crossbred progeny.
7. The Belted bull colour-marks his progeny and traces of the belt persist into the second generation: it is a broad white band between the shoulders and hocks, and including the udder in cows.
8. Mendel deduced, from the way in which characteristics appear in the progeny of crosses, that these characteristics were caused by "factors" which obeyed certain rules (for example, that there are two factors in an individual, of which each gamete receives only one, at random).
9. We have gelded the odd one if we don't like the progeny ."
10. Most importantly, he claimed that the new science was not the progeny of earlier science but the outgrowth of developments in the practical arts.
11. The progeny from that chance cross yielded a triticale that was not only short but was much less sensitive to day length.
12. "Cool green house" conditions out of doors could change our gardens dramatically, causing us to weed out the progeny of today's tender treasures and cossetting plants that like cool, moist conditions.
13. As the presenter of Channel 4's first youth programme Whatever You Want , the stocky Llanelli-born Allen had the ideal vehicle for his anarchic polemics, the best thing about a scrappy programme that featured The Undertones one moment and an abortion debate the next, planting the seeds for The Tube , Network 7 and their many-headed progeny.