If all danger of subsequent cross-fertilization is excluded this first generation of reddish-purple progeny will themselves produce reddish-purple and white progeny in the ratio of three to one.
All the devious methods of plants in producing their young become significant, so far as the earth’s vegetation is concerned, only when we find out what this enormous progeny has done with their opportunity.
A Quarterly Reviewer, in discussing an objection to the Copyright Bill of Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, which was taken by Sir Edward Sugden, gives some curious particulars of the progeny of literary men.
Let the progeny of these be bred to another pure-bred male of the same breed, but as distantly related to the first as may be.
A working bull, though perhaps not so pleasing to the eye as a fat one, is a surer stock-getter; and his progeny is more likely to inherit full health and vigor.
The relative influence of the male and female parents upon the characteristics of progeny has long been a fruitful subject of discussion among breeders.
It is a fact too well established to be controverted, that the first male produces impressions upon subsequent progenyby other males.
With regard to the laws which regulate the sex of the progeny very little is known.
Rudolphi and several of his successors, and also in recent times Ercolani and Colin, regarded this worm as the progeny of Strongylus armatus.
After fecundation successive swarms of embryos are discharged by the female worm, a part of whoseprogeny eventually gains access to the blood.
The progeny of this redia consists of armed Cercariæ, which after a time quit the nurse to pass an independent existence in the water.
Indications of the third progeny were seen whilst the daughter still resided within the body of the nurse-parent, and the so-called grand-daughter became much larger immediately after birth.
It is extremely probable that a large proportion, or at least that certain varieties of these affections are due to morbid changes exclusively resulting from the presence of Filaria Bancrofti or its progeny within the human body.
The dog, for instance, is a species, because all dogs can breed together, and the progeny partakes of the appearances of the parents.
The peculiar leap of the Irish horse, acquired in the course of traversing a boggy country, is continued in the progenybrought up in England.
A male was then obtained of the large coarse-wooled Spanish stock: improvement in the vigor of the progeny was again most obvious.
The progeny were improved in the quality of fleece, and in the vigor of constitution.
This custom is very pernicious; it debilitates the mother, overworks all parts of the living machinery, and being in direct opposition to the laws of their being, their progeny must degenerate.
From these another progeny came forth--Lache and Lachos (Lachmu and Lachamu).
Shamash was similarly exalted in Babylonian hymns: The progeny of those who deal unjustly will not prosper.
A study of the fertility of such marriages and the physical, moral, and intellectual stamina of the progeny would furnish valuable sociological data.
That an infusion of white blood quickens the energy and enlivens the disposition of the progeny is probably true; but that it adds to the intellectual capacity is far from a self-evident proposition.
It is pointed out also that the mongrel progeny has been produced by illicit intercourse between the white male and the black female.
Most of them are known to be the free-swimming progeny (gonophores) of hydroids.
Defn: The progeny resulting from a cross between two breeds, as of domestic animals; anything of mixed breed.
The progeny of such alliances have almost universally the tawny complexion, and fine black eyes of the Gypsey parent, whether father or mother.
The result of the union of two physically, ethically, and intellectually widely differing races is not the transmission to the progeny of any or all of the superior qualities of the progenitor, but rather his own moral degradation.
In some of these islands they found large herds of cattle, the progeny of the first few heads introduced by the early Spanish colonists, who afterward abandoned them.
If this last adaptation were strictly inherited it would be positively injurious, since the progeny would thereby lose the power of individual adaptability, and thus we should have light pupæ on dark surroundings, and vice versa.
Your theory to account for the influence of a first male on progeny by a second seems very probable--and in fact if, as I suppose, spermatozoa often enter ova without producing complete fertilisation, it must be so.
Among the progeny of both these animals there were several in which a portion of each ear was consumed by apparently the same process, where, of course, there had been no operation.
As regards the progeny of animals thus affected, in some cases, but by no means in all, a similarly morbid state of the ears may arise apparently at any time in the life-history of the individual.
I have also had many cases in which some of the progeny of parents thus affected have shown considerable protrusion of the eyeballs on both sides, and this seemingly abnormal protrusion has been occasionally transmitted to the next generation.
But in progeny the morbid process never goes so far as in the parents which have been operated upon, and it almost always affects the middle thirds of the ears.
For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are.
But their misfortunes had been imbittered by the triumph of the Fatimites, the real or spurious progeny of Ali.
The example of the Ommiades was imitated by the real or fictitious progeny of Ali, the Edrissites of Mauritania, and the more powerful fatimites of Africa and Egypt.
Natural selection has determined that exogamy produces fitter progeny than endogamy.
She tried hard to mate me with the wanton, for it was not her method to look into the future to see if a better mother for my progeny awaited me.
If it is the child of your ideal, the offspring of that which is your truest life, then is your progeny your immortality, and then, and then only, have you reason for pride and joy in that which you have caused to be.
I enabled the young men to grow strong and lusty, and the women to find favour with them; and I gave safety to the women when their progeny came forth, and safety to the progeny while it gathered strength and years.
When such origin is not so remote as to have become wholly obscured by a widely connotative extension, it does remain possible to trace its progeny through areas of smaller extension).
Words are thus the easily manipulated counters of thought,” and so, to change the metaphor, are the progeny of generalization.
But in the history of the race gesture-signs were the nursing-mothers of grammatical forms; and the more that their progeny grew, the greater must have been the variety of functions which the parents were called upon to perform.
The lower organisms spawn their progeny in thousands, the higher mammals produce but one or two at a time.
The horse can scarcely be said to exist at the present day in its natural wild state, as the so-called 'wild-horses' of America and Asia are but the progeny of horses which have escaped from the haunts of civilisation.
It usually contains only one young worm, although rare instances have occurred in which as many as fifty of its progeny have been discovered in the same parent.
Therefore the progeny of the buffalo is easily reared, cheaply fed, and requires no housing in winter; three very essential points in stock-raising.
Its progeny are then Amblystomas, and they do not naturally revert to the Axolotl type, although under certain circumstances the steps of this amazing transformation can be retraced.
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