Sentence examples for a defining character of from inspiring English sources

Because segmentation is such a defining character of the annelids, the multiple paired muscles of chitons and fossil monoplacophorans was suggestive of the possibility of segmentation in the ancestral molluscan lineage as well.

For example, Mayer (2006) documented fundamental differences in how the excretory organs (nephridia) develop between onychophorans and annelids that weaken a character, "segmentally arranged metanephridia," that had traditionally been cited as a defining character of Articulata.

It would bump all the earliest fossils out of the human tree--including a 4.1-million-year-old fossil from Kenya called Australopithecus anamensis, which was already well on its way toward becoming human; it already walked upright, which is a defining character of being ancestral to humans, but not apes.

The squamosal lacks a suspensory process that contacts the tegmen tympani, the roof of the tympanic cavity, a defining character of oryzomyines.

The squamosal bone lacks a suspensory process that contacts the tegmen tympani, the roof of the tympanic cavity, a defining character of oryzomyines.

The squamosal probably lacks a suspensory process that contacts the tegmen tympani, the roof of the tympanic cavity, a defining character of oryzomyines.

Despite this complexity, the arrangement of the mesogleal structures supporting the marginal muscles display low levels of homoplasy and appear to be synapomorphic for multiple clades of species recognizable through molecular and ecological characters; restoring the relevance of the marginal musculature as a defining character in Zoanthidea systematics.

At the center of "Brick Lane," a modest new film directed by Sarah Gavron, is a woman for whom modesty is not just a defining character trait but also a moral principle.

The crucial missing ingredient that could prevent "The Three Musketeers" from developing into a juggernaut is a defining character that is anything like Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow.

As much as I hate to pick any one drink as a favorite after all, the defining character of "American drinks" has always been its entertaining, if bewildering, variety my default glass is a martini.

Mr. Ansari does not mind portraying himself as arrogant: it is a defining quality of characters like Tom Haverford, his slick, self-defeating "Parks and Recreation" bureaucrat, or Randy, the self-promoting, maddeningly successful comedian he played in the Judd Apatow film "Funny People," who has since become part of his act.