The phrase "are appropriate to explain" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing whether certain methods, terms, or concepts are suitable for clarifying a particular topic or idea.
Example: "The examples provided are appropriate to explain the complex theory in simpler terms."
Alternatives: "are suitable for explaining" or "are fitting to clarify".
Given that long-distance dispersal between continents is impossible for obligate freshwater fishes, vicariance hypotheses are appropriate to explain observed distribution patterns of freshwater organisms.
Next, we selected sigmoidal nonlinear models that are appropriate to explain biological growth curves, and used the function 'nls' and the library 'grofit' [ 42] in R (version 2.14.0) to fit these models (three-parameter logistic, four-parameter logistic, Weibull growth curve, and Richards' growth function; see Chapter 20 in [ 43]) and a simple linear regression to the data.
He explained: "The generational analysis of the representations of wine in France does seem to be appropriate to explain the deep changes that wine has undergone in the last 60 years.
Thus, we concluded that our second migration model would be appropriate to explain the nature of divergence of Oryza species in Australia.
For example, as discussed above, considerations having to do with unification do not by themselves explain why it is appropriate to explain effects in terms of their causes rather than vice-versa.
As we shall see, our simulations offer quite a good approximation to the evolution of the experimental data, which suggests that a pattern of imperfect conditional cooperation can be appropriate to explain behavior in public good games played in networks.
The analysis confirms that the rock physics model devised for these logs is appropriate to explain the rock behavior, understand the relationships between the petrophysical and elastic rock properties and it could synthesize good quality P-sonic and S-sonic log where no recorded sonic logs were available (Mavko and Mukerji 1995; Avseth et al. 2006).
In order to understand which model (replicative or transcriptional strand) is appropriate to explain the strand-bias, Chi-square tests were used between the number of observed mutations for each class and expected ones under the background signature.
