Sentence examples for accumulate changes from inspiring English sources

It is not recombined between generations, as is nuclear DNA, and it seems to accumulate changes quite rapidly, which makes it ideal for analysis of recent evolutionary events.

NCI's Stephen O'Brien and colleagues then sequenced parts of five mitochondrial genes, which evolve rapidly and thus accumulate changes that can help distinguish subspecies.

Some platforms — Android, iOS, containers in the cloud, etc. — will be around long enough, and accumulate changes slowly enough, that their understanding will be valuable for a long while yet.

"This study shows that, like humans, baboons have the ability to transmit and accumulate changes over 'cultural generations' and that these incremental changes, which may differ depending on the chain, become structured and more efficient," the study's press release notes.

Hybrid dysfunction (e.g., sterility and inviability) in animals evolves in part as a pleiotropic by-product of genic divergence when populations become isolated and subsequently accumulate changes as a result of selection or genetic drift.

Note: selection primarily does not involve evolution in the sense that entities accumulate changes through time.

In practice, mitochondrial DNA has steadily accumulated changes over the centuries because of copying errors and radiation damage.

The Jason panel said that it had found no evidence that the accumulated changes from aging and refurbishment posed any threat to weapon destructiveness, and that the "lifetimes of today's nuclear warheads could be extended for decades, with no anticipated loss of confidence".

The scale bar indicates 0.02 accumulated changes per nucleotide position.

Fig. 1 Simulated landform (left) and accumulated changes over 30 years (right).

As a consequence of these accumulated changes, the mean bill shape and body size of the Geospiza fortis and G. scandens populations differed markedly from 1973 to 2002.