The phrase "a basic determinant of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing factors that influence or determine a particular outcome or situation.
Example: "Education is a basic determinant of an individual's future career opportunities."
Alternatives: "a fundamental factor in" or "a key influence on".
The availability of nitrogen in forms that plants can use is a basic determinant of the fertility of soils; the role of soil organisms in facilitating the nitrogen cycle is therefore of great importance.
Only one of the strands of the siRNA duplex was found to be capable of silencing via its respective target site, indicating that thermodynamic characteristics intrinsic to the siRNA strands are a basic determinant of siRNA activity.
Density dependence is a basic determinant of IFD theory [ 14, 20], and the results of this study conform to the theory.
It will make the question of whether a country sponsors or gives succour to terrorists the basic determinant of whether it is treated as a friend or a foe; and alongside that will stand the question of whether that country is developing weapons of mass destruction or disseminating the wherewithal to do so.
These observations suggest that an endoreduplication event may have been the basic determinant of the chromosomal status for C73, although at least 5 chromosomes would have undergone additional large scale events.
This is an attractive finding because L-arginine is a semiessential amino acid that the dietetic application of L-arginine is the basic determinant of the L-arginine level in plasma, as the biosynthesis of L-arginine is not able to balance inadequate intake or deficiency.
Properly preserved renal perfusion is the basic determinant of oxygenation, vitality, nutrition, and organ function and its structure.
Basic determinants of myocardial hypertrophy: a review of molecular mechanisms.
At a first stage, we review what the literature suggests as being the basic determinants of the behavior of these IOS indicator variables and split these determinants into two broad categories, namely those that do and those that do not directly relate to our IOS theory.
The Harvard authors alternatively propose the etiology of Alzheimer's Disease is what they call "the entropic selection theory". Their idea proposes that A.D. results when the basic determinants of the brain cells' mitochondria are disrupted by a number of harmful assaults.
The analysis can be carried back one more step, to the basic determinants of growth.
