genetic endowment

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genetic
adjective
uk /dʒəˈnet.ɪk/ us /dʒəˈnet̬.ɪk/
belonging or relating to genes (= parts of the DNA in cells) received by each animal or plant from ...
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endowment
noun
uk /ɪnˈdaʊ.mənt/ us /ɪnˈdaʊ.mənt/
money that is given to a college, hospital, etc. in order to provide it with an income, or the giving of ...
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This paper makes a contribution to the literature on the relationship between family geneticendowment and health-related behaviours on several levels.
By using independent samples, we avoid correlations which would represent only shared geneticendowment.
Clearly, we require alternative sources of evidence if we are to determine the precise nature of the child's geneticendowment for language.
As such, this paper evaluates the relationship between family geneticendowment and health-related behaviours and is organized as follows.
Competing theoretical perspectives exist as to how geneticendowment should affect participation in health-related behaviours.
However, in the nutrient-filled field, there will be considerably variability in plant height that is primarily determined by the geneticendowment of the plant.
On the one hand, poor geneticendowment might lead to behaviours that reduce the risk of developing a chronic disease.
Historically, geneticendowment was a lottery, but now it is becoming a product.
Put differently, our geneticendowment does not have to take the form of a mental grammar, present at birth.
The simple reason is that the child's geneticendowment at birth is entirely unaffected by the state of the linguistic environment.
In brief, it is not clear that the ' no negative evidence ' assumption provides any useful information about the child's geneticendowment.
Nonetheless, the developmental pathway from geneticendowment to normal or abnormal performance will neither be simple nor independent from an understanding of the neural networks themselves.
Defined through a given set of genes, the immune self would then take on a specific character, one given by the particular sequence of an individual's geneticendowment.
The reason why people who live closely together can understand each other is because they share a geneticendowment (by virtue of being human) and common (linguistic) experience.
Moreover, recent findings in human biology have shown that while geneticendowment is an important determinant of height at the individual level, in the aggregate genetic factors are less important.
On the one hand, they share 50 % of variance in their geneticendowment and to a degree they have the same experiences in growing up (shared environment).
Belsky has proposed that some individuals have traits and developmental trajectories that are more fixed by their geneticendowment, while others are more plastic and susceptible to rearing influence.
Until recently, we have all been subject to the lottery of our geneticendowment.
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It is, one might say, our geneticendowment.
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They are academically less bright by reason of a lesser basic geneticendowment.
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