Sentence examples for adaptation by which from inspiring English sources

These responses defined genetic drift as the process, or result, of the environment causing change over time, attributing this change to "adaptation," by which they seemed to mean acclimation to environmental characteristics.

By blocking access to the uterus and oviducts, the plug is thought to be an adaptation by which males inhibit the passage of sperm from competitor males, thus protecting their reproductive investment.

In some cases, responses discussed separation followed by adaptation, by which they seemed to mean acclimation, to a new environment: "Genetic drift generally happens when part of a species population is separated and become[s] distinguished and change[s]." "Genetic drift is when members of the same species get separated by environmental forces and over time develop differently".

Comparison of ttGBP and MBP provides a clear example of structural adaptations by which the size of ligand binding sites can be controlled in the PBP super family.

The book has been staged before, including a 1991 adaptation by Christopher Sergel which premiered at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse.

And that uncanny parallel is one of many reasons that this adaptation by Andrew Davies, which begins on PBS this Sunday, is so timely.

Yet his finest work may prove to be this stage musical, composed for an adaptation by Helen Edmundson, which presents a kaleidoscopic adventure through the beautiful and rather silly world of Arthur Ransome's novel.

Previous work has suggested that organisms may also respond to mutations by transcriptional adaptation, a process by which related gene(s) are upregulated independently of protein feedback loops.

These pastoral poems exemplify the processes of imitation, adaptation, and assimilation by which Renaissance writers brought foreign models into the native tradition.

One of the most promising biological processes that are closest to human adaptation is biomineralisation by which living organisms produce minerals, chiefly carbonate products that offer strength to bones, shells and antlers.

There are of course many possible accessory mechanisms (in transmission or e.g. adaptation) and assumptions by which the photoreceptor nonlinearity can be reconciled with the subtractive and (by comparison) moderate suppression observed in this study.