Sentence examples for an advantageous trait from inspiring English sources

Many species that live in cold waters have special proteins in their blood which attach themselves to small crystals of ice and prevent these from growing to a size at which they would be dangerous.Normally, such an advantageous trait would start as a chance mutation that gave its possessor an advantage in the struggle for life.

As African populations began herding cattle, lactose tolerance became an advantageous trait.

Having a defense system against herbivores seems like an advantageous trait for a plant.

The dominant view in the literature states that female dominance is an advantageous trait given the high costs of reproduction and the scarcity of resources available.

That he fought through his illnesses and wrote The Origin of Species and The Voyage of the Beagle, tomes that will forever enrich humanity, should tell us that the psychotic strand may in the end be an advantageous trait.

Positive selection in favor of risk alleles may occur if these alleles lead to an advantageous trait in an alternative environmental context (e.g. protection from pathogens).

As the evidence mounts that same-sex sexytime is a common occurrence in the animal kingdom, scientists have come up with a variety of explanations for why going "gay" might be an evolutionarily advantageous trait, despite the fact that doing so cannot result in baby making.

Empathy means seeking to understand and relate to the feelings, needs and experiences of individuals; it is an extremely advantageous trait to embody.

I think it is more important to develop frames of reference for health policy and care that can address diversity without homogenising or pathologising other cultures, while staying clear of the slippery slope of a functionalist argument of a 'culturally advantageous' trait, as implied by the research.

The ability to infect diverse hosts without causing a distinct, visible response or by causing restricted infections over a number of generations could be a highly advantageous trait when the primary host is transient or rare.

Using only a single locus overlooks the genome-wide distribution of microsatellites, a highly advantageous trait for coalescent inference.