Sentence examples for acquired trait from inspiring English sources

Of any acquired trait, patience was the most valued and the most comforting as the Thunder made their N.B.A. finals debut Tuesday night.

"Offensive" virulence factors, as opposed to host-interaction factors, may more often be a recently acquired trait (on an evolutionary time scale detected by GI analysis).

The somatic progression of cancer would therefore embody the concept of the somatic inheritance of an acquired trait.

12, 13 MS affects people whose excess weight and sedentary life determine the phenotypical expression of a genetically acquired trait.

Modern hyperthermophily appears to be an elaborated, acquired trait [ 13, 120, 121] and it is possible that LUCA, even if it were thermophilic, did not grow in the range of temperatures characteristic of modern thermophiles.

Contrary to this, the acidic amino acid residues responsible for Ca2+ binding (D28 and E31 in SoPIP2 1) are not found in the algal PIPs, suggesting that the Ca2+-dependent gating is a later acquired trait.

And though we can change both inherited and acquired traits, changing the inherited ones is usually harder.

All these beliefs, from inheritance of acquired traits to telegony, must now be classed as superstitions.

Lamarck's ideas about the inheritability of acquired traits, for example, have latterly undergone a revival in epigenetics with the interest in the inheritance of acquired behavioral traits.

Not only Lamarck but also other 19th-century biologists, including Darwin, accepted the inheritance of acquired traits.

Unlike Hall, who was a Darwinian (a proponent of evolution by natural selection), Clements believed that new plant species arose through the inheritance of acquired traits.