traits

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A plant can have tick all the genetic boxes and produce all the right traits, but it has to be beautiful to sell – and that's a judgement made by people.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

Potter fans have told me similar stories of imagining a place where the traits they were told made them aberrant in the Muggle world were prized and valued.

From Salon • May 14, 2026

That helped the researchers examine psychopathic traits in a broader group of individuals.

From Science Daily • May 10, 2026

Loyalty and purity of heart are beautiful traits that many, many people on this earth have.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026

Mendel had discovered the discontinuous nature of genes, Fisher knew, because he had chosen highly discrete traits and crossed pure-breeding plants to begin with.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee