- Institution/s: Universidad de Valladolid
- Project: Diccionario Terminológico de Genética (Eurogene)
- Identification number: 86
- Subdomains: Studies of chromatin, Studies of DNA, Studies of RNA, Techniques
- Author/s: Ana MUÑOZ GASCÓN, Ana María MALLO LAPUERTA, Cristina ADRADA RAFAEL, Teresa AMIDO LOZANO
- Creation / modification date: 01-03-2014
- Term: evolution
- Gramatical category: s
- Definition: Process of continuous and gradual change by which different kinds of living organism are believed to have developed from earlier forms during the history of the earth.
- Context: The results may have applications [...] for predicting the evolution of drug-resistant bacteria. “This is totally revolutionary—that you can actually predict the outcome of [...] aprocess as adaptive evolution,” says Bernhard Palsson[...] “One of the implications of this study is [...] to predict the evolutionary stability of bacteria, and potentially predict the probability of a drug-resistant strain developing.”
- Expression: Darwinian evolution.
- Notes: The idea of organic evolution was proposed by some ancient Greek thinkers but was long rejected in Europe as contrary to the literal interpretation of the Bible. Lamarck proposed a theory that organisms became transformed by their efforts to respond to th
- Weighting mark: nor
- Remission: hiper, Applied science Fuente: Lister Hill national Center for Biomedical Communications et ali (2013). „Eugenics“, Genetics Home Reference. Recuperado el 24 de abril de 2013 de: http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/glossary=eugenics
- Sources:
- Term: DUPRÉ, J. (2006), El legado de Darwin: qué significa la evolución hoy. Buenos Aires. Katz (Mirta Rosemberg, trad.) ISBN 987-1283-18-0
- Definition: DUPRÉ, J. (2006), El legado de Darwin: qué significa la evolución hoy. Buenos Aires. Katz (Mirta Rosemberg, trad.) ISBN 987-1283-18-0
- Context: SOLER, M. (ed.) (2002). Evolución: la base de la biología. Granada. Proyecto Sur de Ediciones. ISBN: 84-8254-139-0
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