DNA stores information that is needed for passing down our genetic characteristics from one generation to the next â for example, what we look like and how we develop â hence it is also known as our genetic blueprint. Half of each person's DNA comes from their mother and the other half from their father. Back to Top.
Small Area Variations. Definition. Health Economics. A term usually applied to the observed wide variations in clinical practices within jurisdictions having otherwise similar health care organizational structures and payments systems, and having populations with similar demographic, economic, social and epidemiological characteristics.
Specific cultures often do not limit their geographic coverage to the borders of a nation state, or to smaller subdivisions of a state. Cultural spheres of influence may also overlap or form concentric structures of macrocultures encompassing smaller local cultures. culture area is a concept in cultural anthropology, in which a geographic region and time sequence (age area) is characterized by substantially uniform environment and culture.