Imprinting
Imprinting describes a process in which newborn animals rapidly develop a strong attachment to a particular individual, often the mother. It is associated particularly with precocious bird ...
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Imprinting
Imprinting refers to the chemical modification of the DNA in some genes that affects how or whether those genes are expressed. One particular kind of DNA imprinting found in mammals is know...
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Imprinting
Imprinting is a term used in ethology (study of animal behavior) to describe the development of a stable behavioral pattern during a brief period of juvenile life (known as the "sensitive p...
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Imprinting
Imprinting is the learning process through which the social preferences of animals of certain species become restricted to a particular object or class of objects. A distinction is made bet...
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A rock that sat untouched in a Pennsylvania museum's fossil collection for years has rare full-body imprints of not just one, but three, ancient amphibians.Researchers found the imprints in sandsto...
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The rapper had everyone talking last week when he signed with Def Jam and now the streets are buzzing again with the news that Nas will release his first album under his Def Jam contract, on his ow...
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Greg Oden didn't dominate the stat sheet, but his imprint was all over Ohio State's sixth straight win.The 7-foot center had just nine points, six rebounds and two blocks in No. 4 Ohio State's 78-6...
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“There’s nobody who has had more tangible, visible effect on the newspaper you see when you pick up The New York Times every day than Al Siegal,” Craig Whitney said.
Al Siegal...
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“There’s nobody who has had more tangible, visible effect on the newspaper you see when you pick up The New York Times every day than Al Siegal,” Craig Whitney said.
Al Siegal...
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Remember biology class where you learned that children inherit one copy of a gene from mom and a second from dad? There's a twist: Some of those genes arrive switched off, so there is no backup if ...
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Remember biology class where you learned that children inherit one copy of a gene from mom and a second from dad? There's a twist: Some of those genes arrive switched off, so there is no backup if ...
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The Perseus Books Group said Thursday that it would shut down two imprints and lay off 24 employees in the wake of its March 1 acquisition of the Avalon Publishing Group.With a motto of "Insightful...
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