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72 relations: Aichi Prefecture, Allele, Allele frequency, Asahi Prize, Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Biologist, Biostatistics, Cambridge University Press, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Darwin Medal, Diffusion equation, Electrophoresis, Eukaryotic chromosome structure, Evolution, Evolutionary biology, Exaptation, Fellow of the Royal Society, Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection, Fixation (population genetics), Fokker–Planck equation, Foodborne illness, Genetic drift, Genetic load, Gustave Malécot, History of biology, History of evolutionary thought, History of molecular biology, Hitoshi Kihara, Homology (biology), Infinite alleles model, Infinite sites model, International Prize for Biology, Iowa State University, J. B. S. Haldane, James F. Crow, Japan Academy, Japan Academy Prize (academics), Japanese people, Jay Laurence Lush, John H. Gillespie, John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science, Kolmogorov equations, Kyoto University, Liliaceae, List of Fellows of the Royal Society, Mishima, Shizuoka, Modern synthesis (20th century), Molecular biology, Molecular evolution, ..., Nagoya, National Academy of Sciences, National Institute of Genetics, Natural selection, Neutral theory of molecular evolution, Nucleic acid sequence, Okazaki, Aichi, Order of Culture, Person of Cultural Merit, Population genetics, Protein primary structure, Ronald Fisher, Royal Society, Sewall Wright, Shizuoka Prefecture, Stepwise mutation model, The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution, The New York Times, Tomoko Ohta, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Weldon Memorial Prize, World War II. Expand index (22 more) »
Aichi Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region.
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Allele
An allele is a variant form of a given gene.
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Allele frequency
Allele frequency, or gene frequency, is the relative frequency of an allele (variant of a gene) at a particular locus in a population, expressed as a fraction or percentage.
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Asahi Prize
The, established in 1929, is an award presented by the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun and Asahi Shimbun Foundation to honor individuals and groups that have made outstanding accomplishments in the fields of arts and academics and have greatly contributed to the development and progress of Japanese culture and society at large.
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Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission
The Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC) was a commission established in 1946 in accordance with a presidential directive from Harry S. Truman to the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council to conduct investigations of the late effects of radiation among the atomic-bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
The Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society is an academic journal on the history of science published annually by the Royal Society.
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Biologist
A biologist, is a scientist who has specialized knowledge in the field of biology, the scientific study of life.
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Biostatistics
Biostatistics is the application of statistics to a wide range of topics in biology.
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) is a private, non-profit institution with research programs focusing on cancer, neuroscience, plant genetics, genomics, and quantitative biology.
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Darwin Medal
The Darwin Medal is awarded by the Royal Society every alternate year for "work of acknowledged distinction in the broad area of biology in which Charles Darwin worked, notably in evolution, population biology, organismal biology and biological diversity".
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Diffusion equation
The diffusion equation is a partial differential equation.
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Electrophoresis
Electrophoresis (from the Greek "Ηλεκτροφόρηση" meaning "to bear electrons") is the motion of dispersed particles relative to a fluid under the influence of a spatially uniform electric field.
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Eukaryotic chromosome structure
Eukaryotic chromosome structure refers to the levels of packaging from the raw DNA molecules to the chromosomal structures seen during metaphase in mitosis or meiosis.
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Evolution
Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
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Evolutionary biology
Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes that produced the diversity of life on Earth, starting from a single common ancestor.
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Exaptation
Exaptation (Stephen Jay Gould and Elisabeth Vrba's proposed replacement for what he considered the teleologically-loaded term "pre-adaptation") and the related term co-option describe a shift in the function of a trait during evolution.
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Fellow of the Royal Society
Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society judges to have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science and medical science".
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Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection
Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection is an idea about genetic variance in population genetics developed by the statistician and evolutionary biologist Ronald Fisher.
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Fixation (population genetics)
In population genetics, fixation is the change in a gene pool from a situation where there exists at least two variants of a particular gene (allele) in a given population to a situation where only one of the alleles remains.
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Fokker–Planck equation
In statistical mechanics, the Fokker–Planck equation is a partial differential equation that describes the time evolution of the probability density function of the velocity of a particle under the influence of drag forces and random forces, as in Brownian motion.
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Foodborne illness
Foodborne illness (also foodborne disease and colloquially referred to as food poisoning) is any illness resulting from the food spoilage of contaminated food, pathogenic bacteria, viruses, or parasites that contaminate food, as well as toxins such as poisonous mushrooms and various species of beans that have not been boiled for at least 10 minutes.
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Genetic drift
Genetic drift (also known as allelic drift or the Sewall Wright effect) is the change in the frequency of an existing gene variant (allele) in a population due to random sampling of organisms.
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Genetic load
Genetic load is the difference between the fitness of an average genotype in a population and the fitness of some reference genotype, which may be either the best present in a population, or may be the theoretically optimal genotype.
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Gustave Malécot
Gustave Malécot (December 28, 1911 – November 1998) was a French mathematician whose work on heredity had a strong influence on population genetics.
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History of biology
The history of biology traces the study of the living world from ancient to modern times.
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History of evolutionary thought
Evolutionary thought, the conception that species change over time, has roots in antiquity – in the ideas of the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Chinese as well as in medieval Islamic science.
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History of molecular biology
The history of molecular biology begins in the 1930s with the convergence of various, previously distinct biological and physical disciplines: biochemistry, genetics, microbiology, virology and physics.
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Hitoshi Kihara
was a Japanese geneticist known for his work on the genetics of wheat.
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Homology (biology)
In biology, homology is the existence of shared ancestry between a pair of structures, or genes, in different taxa.
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Infinite alleles model
The infinite alleles model is a mathematical model for calculating genetic mutations.
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Infinite sites model
The Infinite sites model (ISM) is a mathematical model of molecular evolution first proposed by Motoo Kimura in 1969.
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International Prize for Biology
The is an annual award for "outstanding contribution to the advancement of research in fundamental biology." The Prize, although it is not always awarded to a biologist, is one of the most prestigious honours a natural scientist can receive.
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Iowa State University
Iowa State University of Science and Technology, generally referred to as Iowa State, is a public flagship land-grant and space-grant research university located in Ames, Iowa, United States.
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J. B. S. Haldane
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (5 November 18921 December 1964) was an English scientist known for his work in the study of physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and in mathematics, where he made innovative contributions to the fields of statistics and biostatistics.
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James F. Crow
James Franklin Crow (January 18, 1916 – January 4, 2012) was Professor Emeritus of Genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a prominent population geneticist whose career spanned from the modern synthesis to the genomic era.
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Japan Academy
is an honorary organization founded in 1879 to bring together leading Japanese scholars with distinguished records of scientific achievements.
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Japan Academy Prize (academics)
The is a prize awarded by the Japan Academy in recognition of academic theses, books, and achievements.
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Japanese people
are a nation and an ethnic group that is native to Japan and makes up 98.5% of the total population of that country.
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Jay Laurence Lush
Jay Laurence Lush (January 3, 1896 – May 22, 1982) was a pioneering animal geneticist who made important contributions to livestock breeding.
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John H. Gillespie
John H. Gillespie is an evolutionary biologist interested in theoretical population genetics and molecular evolution.
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John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science
The John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science is awarded by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences "for noteworthy and distinguished accomplishments in any field of science within the charter of the Academy".
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Kolmogorov equations
In probability theory, Kolmogorov equations, including Kolmogorov forward equations and Kolmogorov backward equations, characterize stochastic processes.
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Kyoto University
, or is a national university in Kyoto, Japan.
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Liliaceae
The lily family, Liliaceae, consists of fifteen genera and about 705 known species (Christenhusz & Byng 2016) of flowering plants within the order Liliales.
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List of Fellows of the Royal Society
More than 8,000 people have been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society since the inception of the Royal Society in 1660.
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Mishima, Shizuoka
Mishima City Hall is a city located in eastern Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
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Modern synthesis (20th century)
The modern synthesis was the early 20th-century synthesis reconciling Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and Gregor Mendel's ideas on heredity in a joint mathematical framework.
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Molecular biology
Molecular biology is a branch of biology which concerns the molecular basis of biological activity between biomolecules in the various systems of a cell, including the interactions between DNA, RNA, proteins and their biosynthesis, as well as the regulation of these interactions.
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Molecular evolution
Molecular evolution is the process of change in the sequence composition of cellular molecules such as DNA, RNA, and proteins across generations.
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Nagoya
is the largest city in the Chūbu region of Japan.
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National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization.
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National Institute of Genetics
The National Institute of Genetics ("Japanese Institute of Genetics") is a Japanese institution founded in 1949.
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Natural selection
Natural selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype.
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Neutral theory of molecular evolution
The neutral theory of molecular evolution holds that at the molecular level most evolutionary changes and most of the variation within and between species is not caused by natural selection but by genetic drift of mutant alleles that are neutral.
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Nucleic acid sequence
A nucleic acid sequence is a succession of letters that indicate the order of nucleotides forming alleles within a DNA (using GACT) or RNA (GACU) molecule.
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Okazaki, Aichi
is a city located in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.
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Order of Culture
The is a Japanese order, established on February 11, 1937.
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Person of Cultural Merit
is an official Japanese recognition and honor which is awarded annually to select people who have made outstanding cultural contributions.
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Population genetics
Population genetics is a subfield of genetics that deals with genetic differences within and between populations, and is a part of evolutionary biology.
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Protein primary structure
Protein primary structure is the linear sequence of amino acids in a peptide or protein.
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Ronald Fisher
Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962), who published as R. A. Fisher, was a British statistician and geneticist.
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Royal Society
The President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, commonly known as the Royal Society, is a learned society.
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Sewall Wright
Sewall Green Wright (December 21, 1889March 3, 1988) was an American geneticist known for his influential work on evolutionary theory and also for his work on path analysis.
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Shizuoka Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu.
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Stepwise mutation model
The stepwise mutation model (SMM) is a mathematical theory, developed by Motoo Kimura and Tomoko Ohta, that allows for investigation of the equilibrium distribution of allelic frequencies in a finite population where neutral alleles are produced in step-wise fashion.
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The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution
The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution is an influential monograph written in 1983 by Japanese evolutionary biologist Motoo Kimura.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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Tomoko Ohta
is a Japanese scientist working on population genetics/molecular evolution.
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University of Wisconsin–Madison
The University of Wisconsin–Madison (also known as University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, or regionally as UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States.
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Weldon Memorial Prize
The Weldon Memorial Prize, also known as the Weldon Memorial Prize and Medal, is given yearly by the University of Oxford.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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