The phrase "adaptive as a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when making a comparison to describe someone or something that is flexible or able to adjust to different conditions.
Example: "She is adaptive as a chameleon, able to thrive in various environments."
Alternatives: "flexible as a" or "versatile as a".
"We are nowhere near as adaptive as a human tutor who, by looking at your facial expression [sees] you are a little hesitant on something.
Forrester Research, a high-tech consultancy, has coined the term "organic IT a computing infrastructure that is not only built on cheap parts, but is also as adaptive as a living organism.
Arrowsmith is joining Adaptive as a Board Observer, the company says.
It acts on receptors in the brain, in a way that is adaptive as a response to acute stress, but might become maladaptive when stress is chronic [ 32].
For instance, females of the gregarious parasitoid wasp Goniozus nephantidis Muesebeck (Bethylidae) lay smaller clutches (which produce larger females) when competition over hosts is high; this is adaptive as a size advantage allows daughters to guard hosts aggressively (Goubault, Mack & Hardy, 2007).
Avoidance strategies may be viewed as 'negative' or maladaptive by health professionals if it means that patients avoid doing their treatments, but from the perspective of patients may be psychologically adaptive as a means to escape the world of CF for a while.
Although we assume no explicit bias in the rate of gene deletion compared with duplication, loss of genes is a prominent feature in our model, occurring in an adaptive as well as a neutral context.
Current definitions of ID include adaptive behavior as a component, but place adaptive behavior at different levels of prominence.
Finally, the authors think of an adaptive radiation as a sequence of competition-avoiding innovations that fills a pre-existing adaptive zone.
Thus living systems have an adaptive capacity as long as the starting populations are sufficiently diverse.
Model 1 incorporates support for adaptive action as a response variable, and models both direct and indirect effects of beliefs on support for adaptive action.
