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It's like a global search and replace, or in science terms, it makes a heterozygous trait homozygous.
Assuming that your trait does not have a big evolutionary handicap, like a mosquito that can't fly, the CRISPR-based gene drive will spread the change relentlessly until it is in every single individual in the population.
That's not so bad if your drive just promotes a trait, like eye color.
Also, the trait spreads only with each successive generation.
In elephants or people, it would take centuries for a trait to spread widely enough to matter.
Also, even with CRISPR, it's not that easy to engineer a truly devastating trait.
One of the most influential approaches in personality science is known as trait psychology, and it aligns you along five dimensions which are normally distributed, and that describe universally held aspects of difference between people.
There's a personality trait that throws us off.
This built-in sun shield helped protect them from melanoma, likely making them evolutionarily fitter and capable of passing this useful trait on to new generations.
Therefore, skin color is little more than an adaptive trait for living on a rock that orbits the Sun.
Psychologists recognize two forms of narcissism as a personality trait: grandiose and vulnerable narcissism.
What makes these trait a true personality disorder is that they take over people's lives and cause significant problems.
In the United States, for example, narcissism as a personality trait has been rising since the 1970s, when the communal focus of the 60s gave way to the self-esteem movement and a rise in materialism.
The trait that prevents me from recognizing my mom allows me to smoothly adapt, to quickly absorb and accurately process an exhausting volume of cues, tease out what's important, determine multiple processes or potentials for any situation that I'm in, and then select the one that makes the most sense, all in a matter of seconds.
This is a trait that only a few species on this planet have.
And under these relaxed conditions, preference and trait combinations are free to drift and become more variable.
Four building blocks called bases are strung together in precise sequences, which tell the cell how to behave and form the basis for our every trait.
The paradoxical nature of this trait was personified for the ancient Greeks in the mythical figure of Pandora.
The first was the trait of curiosity, which settled in her spirit and sent her eagerly out into the world.
Self-made millionaires tend to have one big trait in common: they make decisions, hold themselves accountable and push through in the face of challenges.
Random genetic mutations in orchids may result in a trait– like a scent or a shape– that, by chance, matches the needs of a single insect species.
It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called openness to experience.
If you know about this trait, you can understand a lot of puzzles about human behavior, like why artists are so different from accountants.
Once you understand this trait, you can understand why anybody would eat at Applebee's, but not anybody that you know.
This trait also tells us a lot about politics.
The main researcher of this trait, Robert McCrae, says that "Open individuals have an affinity for liberal, progressive, left-wing political views ..." They like a society which is open and changing, "... whereas closed individuals prefer conservative, traditional, right-wing views."
This trait also tells us a lot about the kinds of groups people join.
And that you can take a trait that you know from one plant and put it in another plant, and you can make a prediction that it'll do the same thing.
So that tells us we might be able to even combine within a trait and get even more suberin.
And what we found was that highly attractive trait that was there disappeared after they had cleared the infection, so it wasn't just that the people were more attractive, it was that the parasite was manipulating its host in some way to make it more attractive to mosquitoes, standing out like a beacon to attract more mosquitoes so that it could continue its life cycle.
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