Sentence examples for a certain trait from inspiring English sources

Such studies draw wide scale comparisons between populations with, and without, a certain trait (disease/health condition).

This simulation models selective pressure against certain traits—having a certain trait makes an individual more attractive to a predator.

The same error is found today when someone argues that some value or moral principle is justified because a certain trait is (so they claim) universal, or innate, or reflects "human nature".

A linkage study identifies only broad regions containing dozens or even hundreds of genes, whereas GWA studies often allow the association of a specific gene with a certain trait in the population.

Lehrman was particularly critical of the use of the deprivation experiment to infer that a certain trait is innate simpliciter, rather than merely that the factors controlled for in the experiment are not needed for the development of that trait.

Generally, the onset of expression for a gene encoding a certain trait among bacterial candidates in bio-processing varies widely among different bacterial members belonging to different genera and species and even among different strains belonging to the same species and subspecies.

(Does it serve as a symbol? Represent a certain "human" trait? Have religious importance? How is it portrayed in tales or myths from this culture?) –Are certain breeds or genetic anomalies (such as albinos) valued more than others among certain cultures?

In the most general sense, convergent evolution refers to the independent and repeated emergence of a certain adaptive trait in distantly related lineages.

As a consequence, if taxa with a certain physiological trait are all closely related, they will tend to have a low genetic distance to each other regardless of their trait status [28].

As discussed by [33], [60] inferences about behavior in fossil taxa, which go beyond parsimony, can be made if there is "compelling morphological evidence" that a certain fossilized trait is strictly correlated with a certain behavior (e.g., distinctive coiling of the cochlea in bats indicating echolocation [61]).

In the field, all lines lacking a certain floral trait had reduced loads of eggs.