Example sentences of "transmitted from [noun sg] to generation " in BNC.
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1 | Before we leave this topic , with some doubtless well-received witticisms about the American ateliers that are called Schools of Creative Writing , let us ask ourselves how an artistic tradition is transmitted from generation to generation in England , if it is not transmitted in the way that Pound took for granted . |
2 | At that time , thanks in particular to the work of Morgan and his colleagues on Drosophila , we had an abstract model of how genes are arranged on chromosomes , and of how they are transmitted from generation to generation , but we did not understand the chemistry of genes , or their replication , or their role in protein synthesis . |
3 | How is the knowledge transmitted from generation to generation ? |
4 | This attitude becomes part of their subculture and is transmitted from generation to generation . |
5 | They know the formulae , they have been transmitted from generation to generation down the years . |
6 | Culture , in the sense of " patterns of learned behaviour transmitted from generation to generation by learning rather than by genetic endowment " , is a characteristic of many other species besides man . |