Word: gregor
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...studio's schedule is divided between work done for on- and off-campus groups and the personal projects of the dozen-odd member recording engineers. "It's a great place to produce work that is all your own and preserve it for the future," said engineer Gregor Hanuschak '02. In order to become members, budding engineers must complete a comp that consists of several training sessions on recording techniques and the technical operation of the studio and at least 20 hours of time working under the tutelage of present members. At the end of the test compers must pass...
...university-press obfuscation. Her miscellaneous subjects are bound together by the particular and consistent kind of attention she pays them. When discussing, for example, Kafka, she talks of his clothes and confidently and convincingly takes her argument from the well-cut suits he preferred to the bodily architecture of Gregor, the cockroach protagonist of The Metamorphosis...
Interest in eugenics grew with the rediscovery and wide dissemination of an obscure Austrian monk's experiments in breeding peas. Gregor Mendel's discovery of genetically transmitted dominant and recessive traits seemed to many the key that would unlock the mysteries of human heredity. In the U.S., biologist Charles Davenport (1866-1944) established, with the help of a $10 million endowment from the Carnegie Institution, a center for research in human evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. A strict Mendelian, Davenport believed so-called single-unit genes determined such traits as alcoholism and feeblemindedness. The way to eradicate such failings...
...even with the best of tools, the progress is uneven. DNA, it turns out, is full of surprises. As scientists unravel the secrets of the genome, they are discovering that what they learned from Gregor Mendel is woefully incomplete. The textbook model of inheritance that Mendel found in his garden peas -- in which a trait like the color of a flower is determined by a single gene -- is almost never seen in human DNA. Even a seemingly straightforward characteristic in humans, eye color, for instance, can involve the interaction of several genes. And a complex gene, like the one that...
...Gregor Mendel could not have foreseen it. James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA, could not have imagined it. Yet the Orthodox Jewish communities of New York and Israel are applying modern genetic biology to their major life choices...