It involves singling out a particular trait of the person you're speaking with.
The authors insist they are not making value judgments; whether a particular trait is positive or negative depends on circumstance.
Was there a particular trait or aspect of his personality that led you to write for him?
This last use of vocabulary may be a particular trait of European languages and some others.
Gene-drive technology involves engineering organisms to boost their chance of passing on a particular trait to their offspring.
"We still don't know the physical features of a face that lead to a particular trait inference," he said.
The examination of unaffected relatives is critical in determining whether a particular trait is genetically-relevant to BPD.
Alex's "mother", Irene Pepperberg, has asked, "what do we learn if we find that a particular trait is or is not restricted to humans?".
In essence, cloning allows breeders to speed up the clock - to bring forward a particular trait in a herd in rapid time.
But domestication is an arduous process, in which animals must be selected for a particular trait through many generations, by several generations of people.
Alleles may occur in pairs, or there may be multiple alleles affecting the expression (phenotype) of a particular trait.
