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- adjective Alternative form of
Mendelian .
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Not a few writers apparently think of patriotism as a fixed trait of the human organism, even as a kind of mendelian character unrelated to other social qualities.
The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History G.E. Partridge
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These patients will include those with disorders of mendelian genetics, cytogenetics, contiguous gene deletions, dysmorphology, congenital malformations, multifactorial disorders, mental retardation and developmental disabilities.
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If the parents have been typed, this follows from mendelian principles; otherwise the probability of DZ twins typing the same must be calculated for each possible parental mating and weighted by the probability of that mating calculated from population gene frequencies.
Archive 2004-12-01 2004
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This suggests that wizarding ability is inherited in a mendelian fashion, with the wizard allele (W) being recessive to the muggle allele (M).
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Therefore, although the prion “option” is clearly subject to conventional Darwinian evolution, in the case of PSI+ natural selection is acting on a non-mendelian, non-genetically encoded trait.
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Its more than just non-mendelian, its non-genetic.
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That would invalidate the mendelian hypothesis, correct? darwinfinch
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This suggests that wizarding ability is inherited in a mendelian fashion, with the wizard allele (W) being recessive to the muggle allele (M).
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The PSI+ prion trait is transmitted in a non-mendelian fashion.
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About 50% of Europeans and southern and central Africans and 10 to 15% of Asians are slow acetylators a mendelian recessive.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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