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  2. Pedigree chart - Wikipedia

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    Pedigrees use a standardized set of symbols, squares represent males and circles represent females. Pedigree construction is a family history, and details about an earlier generation may be uncertain as memories fade. If the sex of the person is unknown, a diamond is used.

  3. Family tree - Wikipedia

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    A family tree, also called a genealogy or a pedigree chart, is a chart representing family relationships in a conventional tree structure. More detailed family trees, used in medicine and social work, are known as genograms.

  4. Human genetics - Wikipedia

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    An example of a family pedigree displaying an autosomal recessive trait. A pedigree is a diagram showing the ancestral relationships and transmission of genetic traits over several generations in a family. Square symbols are almost always used to represent males, whilst circles are used for females.

  5. Gender symbol - Wikipedia

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    Pedigree charts published in scientific papers use an earlier anthropological convention of a square for male and a circle for female. [ 7 ] Before a shape distinction was adopted, all individuals had been represented by a circle in Morgan's 1871 System of Consanguinity and Affinity of Human Family , where gender is encoded in the abbreviations ...

  6. Pedigree - Wikipedia

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    Pedigree chart, a document to record ancestry, used by genealogists in study of human family lines, and in selective breeding of other animals Pedigree, a human genealogy (ancestry chart) Pedigree (animal), a breed registry Purebred, or "pedigreed" animal with a recorded lineage

  7. What Is the 'Flower of Life' and What Does it Represent ... - AOL

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    "The Seed of Life has seven overlapping circles shaping a flower-like pattern. It represents the fundamental theme of space and time, and [is] often deemed as a symbol of creation and a blueprint ...

  8. A young Jimmy Carter was no stranger to gospel music growing up in the small rural town of Plains, Georgia during the ’20s and early ’30’. He heard it sung by Black tenant farmers working on ...

  9. Most recent common ancestor - Wikipedia

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    Through sexual reproduction, an ancestor passes half of his or her genes to each descendant in the next generation; in the absence of pedigree collapse, after just 32 generations the contribution of a single ancestor would be on the order of 2 −32, a number proportional to less than a single basepair within the human genome.