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    Impact of Maternal Prenatal Stress on Growth of the Offspring: A Review This research was designed to show the effects of maternal stress on the developing fetus during the first, second, and third trimester. The stressors could be anxiety, depression, or other environmental stressors that could exert psychological pressure on the mother, and the respond to these stressors is increase in cortisol levels which exert a variety of adverse effects on the developing fetus. The results of this study are

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    Yogi Bear

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    bear population 0f both black and brown bears in the woods, after the survey he did. In his survey he found there is a population 360 brown bears and 640 black bears that resided in the park. However, he found out something odd when it came to the offspring of those populations that were produced. When brown bears, mated they produced brown bears, but, when black bears mated it sometimes it produced browns bear. Thus lead him to try figure what traits were dominant and which are recessive in the population

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    nests to produce more offspring that they do not have to take responsibility for raising. Worker ants in slave away their lives for the good of their colony while

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    can have short and long term effects on the health and future disease state of offspring. To look into the effects of the intrauterine environment, several factors need to be taken into account. This discussion will include the effects of maternal environmental conditions on the health of offspring, including type 1 and 2 diabetes,

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    Based on these methods above the bean beetle experiment was conducted. Hundreds bean beetle offspring were measured, averages, standard deviation, and two figures were produced based on the data collected. Observations of the bean beetles mating showed that the larger the parents, the larger the offspring tended to be. There were six beetles in the large, small, and control groups. Exactly three males and three females were in these groups. The mating done were all consistent shown in the methods

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    The purpose of this article is to examine associations between characteristics of the mother–child relationship and offspring psychopathology. It is also agreeing with previous studies which state that parental control was found to be more strongly associated with offspring anxiety than parental rejection, parental rejection was shown to be more strongly associated with offspring depression than parental control. Other studies have found that adolescent anxiety symptoms were associated with lower

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    Mendelian Cracker

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    What L.H. Snyder means when he states the term “Mendelian marker” is basically saying that when any Mendelian trait that eventually becomes inherited may be sooner or later be used as a marker for any upcoming experiments. 2. The questions that Dr. Snyder will address are as follows: If the capability to see the bitterness of the PTC by children will varies for the reason of inheritance? If the capability to see the bitterness of the PTC by children varies with the gender of the parent for those

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    (XrXr), a homozygous dominant red-eyed female (XRXR) and a heterozygous red-eyed male (XRXr). 2. In mating the white-eyed male and the homozygous recessive female, all of the offspring were white-eyed with genotypes XrXr and XrY. The cross between a white-eyed male and a homozygous dominant female, all of the male offspring will be red-eyed (XRY), and all of the females will have red eyes and be heterozygotes. The last cross I performed was between a red-eyed male and a homozygous white-eyed female

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    In Charles Darwin’s Understanding Natural Selection, he states important points; “natural selection may modify and adapt” a species, species improve their traits in order to survive, and “the toughest, healthy males will leave the most offspring” (Darwin 927, 928, 929). In Darwin’s Understanding Natural selection, both natural and sexual selection play an important role on animals and the environment. For instance, natural selection can modify or adapt a species. “In social animals will adapt the

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    have advantage over the rest of the same specie (Stanford 99). In sexual selection, males compete between one another to gain access to a mate, and females choose particular promising mates that demonstrate trait variability, so that their future offspring will have a higher chance of survival (Stanford 99). Male individuals have to demonstrate power, who can conquer the most, ability to survive and provide protection, among other characteristics that will make him the right mate for a female. And

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