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Traditionally, born in the purple[1] (sometimes "born to the purple") was a category of members of royal families born during the reign of their parent. This notion was later loosely expanded to include all children born of prominent or high-ranking parents. [2] The parents must be prominent at the time of the child's birth so that the child is ...
Genetics. Gregor Johann Mendel OSA (/ ˈmɛndəl /; Czech: Řehoř Jan Mendel; [2] 20 July 1822 [3] – 6 January 1884) was an Austrian-Czech [4] biologist, meteorologist, [5] mathematician, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno (Brünn), Margraviate of Moravia. Mendel was born in a German-speaking family in the Silesian part ...
Mendelian inheritance (also known as Mendelism) is a type of biological inheritance following the principles originally proposed by Gregor Mendel in 1865 and 1866, re-discovered in 1900 by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns, and later popularized by William Bateson. [ 1 ] These principles were initially controversial.
Lek paradox: Persistent female choice for particular male trait values should erode genetic variance in male traits and thereby remove the benefits of choice, yet choice persists. Lombard's paradox : When rising to stand from a sitting or squatting position , both the hamstrings and quadriceps contract at the same time, despite their being ...
The latter argument, resting on the Byzantine idea of being "born in the purple", may have come from Isabella's Byzantine mother, Maria Komnene. [56] Baldwin IV died in March 1185 [ 46 ] [ 57 ] or before 16 May 1185 at the latest, when Sibylla's son, Baldwin V, is recorded as the sole king. [ 58 ]
The nonidentity problem (also called the paradox of future individuals) [1] in population ethics is the problem that an act may still be wrong even if it is not wrong for anyone. More precisely, the nonidentity problem is the inability to simultaneously hold the following beliefs: (1) a person-affecting view; (2) bringing someone into existence ...
Genic capture is a hypothesis explaining the maintenance of genetic variance in traits under sexual selection. A classic problem in sexual selection is the fixation of alleles that are beneficial under strong selection, thereby eliminating the benefits of mate choice. Genic capture resolves this paradox by suggesting that additive genetic ...
Gender. Male. Mervall and Descant Brill, commonly known as "the Brill brothers," are twin pixies featured in Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception. While Mervall, the elder twin, is regarded as the more intelligent of the two, they share a close bond, often completing each other's sentences.