Offspring used in a sentence

Offspring in a sentence as a noun

Inbred corn plants are about 4-5 feet tall and ugly as sin, but their offspring are 8 feet tall and near perfect.

In some studies, if a mother is stressed, her offspring have stress response genes turned on by default at birth.

What they ought to do, of course, is what any ordinary mammal does when their offspring goes too far - smack them.

The resulting offspring of any two inbreds from two different pools is amazing.

Before Darwin, Lamarck argued that acquired characteristics could be passed on to offspring.

This is due to simple evolutionary forces, which for K-selected species, favor fewer offspring which have much longer weaning periods.

It is time now to realize the nature of the universe to which you belong, and of that controlling Power whose offspring you are; and to understand that your time has a limit set to it.

Expectant mothers should be able to down up to 12 alcoholic beverages a week knowing it will have no ill effect on their offspring before the age of five, the paper continued.

It's quite remarkable and it means that in addition to our DNA which is fairly static, we have this parallel inheritance pattern that can be shaped and molded by the environment and passed to our offspring.

Evolution works by incremental changes, each of which to a first approximation must be at least neutral and preferably advantageous to producing offspring.

These methylation changes may also occur as a response to other environmental stresses later in life as well as childhood, and other epigenetic modifications may be passed to offspring.

Humanity as a database: after infiltrating a religious order mandate arranged marriages encoding your input data in predicted genetic mutations of offspring.

And after ten days, they divided the dams into two categories: the ones that licked and groomed a lot, which they labeled high LG, and the ones that licked and groomed a little, which they labeled low LG....The researchers ran test after test, and on each one, the high-LG offspring excelled: They were better at mazes.

Customers aren't actually as stupid as birds: You can put a newborn cuckoo in a bird's nest and the bird will feed it -- it doesn't actually know what its own offspring are supposed to look like -- but you can't just build a thing with a screen that looks superficially like an iPad and expect folks to mindlessly buy it.

Ultimately, Engels traces these phenomena to the recent development of exclusive male control of private property and the attendant desire to ensure that their inheritance is passed only to their own offspring: chastity and fidelity are rewarded, says Engels, because they guarantee exclusive access to the sexual and reproductive faculty of women possessed by men from the property-owning class.