Selection for a trait, be it beak size or something else, depends on passing down the genes for that trait to offspring.

某个性状的选择，比如说喙的大小或者其他别的，取决于控制该性状基因的代代传承。

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Language has the characteristic of passing down and it is especially true of popular language.

语言具有一定的传承性，流行语言更是如此。

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As an advantage, music education of teachers colleges could play a positive role in protecting and passing down nationality folk music.

在保护、传承民族民间音乐文化的过程中，地方高师音乐教育不仅具有较好的优势，而且可以发挥积极的作用。

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Others say that means rejecting a 200-year-old tradition of passing down rules and precedents from each Congress to its successor.

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And since a gene passing down the generations spends half its time in women, they get the benefit of this elimination as well.

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After passing down generations of his family, one of Rossetti's paintings of Jane Morris is now up for auction for the first time.

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