Sentence examples for ancillary traits from inspiring English sources
There were all sorts of ancillary traits in a hitter -- the number of pitches he saw per plate appearance, for instance -- that had concrete value to a baseball offense but that were treated by most baseball people as worthless.
In addition, Ti and Ri plasmids, as well as the Ao (Agrobacterium opine catabolic) and accessory plasmids of pathogenic and nonpathogenic isolates of Agrobacterium spp., may encode genes for ancillary traits including uptake and catabolism of opines, unique organic conjugates that are produced by crown gall tumors and hairy roots (reviewed in Dessaux et al. 1998).
Likewise, most of the mitochondrial syndromes due to mutations in nuclear genes behave as recessive traits and in many cases are determined either by mutations in "ancillary" proteins that play an arguably relevant, but nevertheless not essential, often partially redundant, role in OXPHOS, or by hypomorphic mutant alleles encoding a crippled but still partially functional protein.
"Those are just ancillary arguments.
There are ancillary benefits, too.
There were ancillary benefits too.
There are no ancillary characters.
Security is not ancillary to any deal.
But these are all ancillary benefits.
