Sentence examples for as a defining character of from inspiring English sources

For example, Mayer (2006) documented fundamental differences in how the excretory organs (nephridia) develop between onychophorans and annelids that weaken a character, "segmentally arranged metanephridia," that had traditionally been cited as a defining character of Articulata.

Because segmentation is such a defining character of the annelids, the multiple paired muscles of chitons and fossil monoplacophorans was suggestive of the possibility of segmentation in the ancestral molluscan lineage as well.

The squamosal bone lacks a suspensory process that contacts the tegmen tympani, the roof of the tympanic cavity, a defining character of oryzomyines.

The squamosal probably lacks a suspensory process that contacts the tegmen tympani, the roof of the tympanic cavity, a defining character of oryzomyines.

The squamosal lacks a suspensory process that contacts the tegmen tympani, the roof of the tympanic cavity, a defining character of oryzomyines.

A defining character of animals is the need to incorporate other organisms, or their products, for nourishment.

Before molecular phylogenetics the placement of these genera within Pezizomycotina remained tentative; morphological characters were misleading because they do not produce multicellular ascocarps, a defining character of Pezizomycotina.

Despite this complexity, the arrangement of the mesogleal structures supporting the marginal muscles display low levels of homoplasy and appear to be synapomorphic for multiple clades of species recognizable through molecular and ecological characters; restoring the relevance of the marginal musculature as a defining character in Zoanthidea systematics.

As much as I hate to pick any one drink as a favorite after all, the defining character of "American drinks" has always been its entertaining, if bewildering, variety my default glass is a martini.

The messages from the book really need to be heard and I hope that more people become aware that illness is not the defining character of a person.

Two years ago I identified the defining character of this protest generation as follows: "People have a better understanding of power.