Sentence examples for because it confers a from inspiring English sources

And certain riders might choose a Ross simply because it confers a degree of anonymity.

A chronic ailment like schizophrenia or cancer cannot be genetic in origin, because it confers a disadvantage in the competition to reproduce.

Adaptive evolutionary change occurs when the frequency of a trait (genetic or phenotypic feature) increases because it confers a survival or reproductive advantage to the "individuals" (genes, bacteria, animals, etc).

T315I is the most clinically relevant mutation because it confers a global resistance against all available molecular therapy approaches [ 3, 4].

We propose this evolutionary sequence is critical in late carcinogenesis because it confers a proliferative advantage on the population and enhances invasiveness (Rohzin et al, 1994; Cuvier et al, 1997).

These concerns stem from farmers' assertions that sheep carrying high-risk genotypes are more hardy or perform better than their flock-mates which carry low-risk genotypes [ 5, 6], and from the hypothesis that the high-risk VRQ allele is maintained in the sheep population because it confers a selective advantage in a scrapie-free environment [ 7].

Critics of the Ascriptivist variant of Primary Right Theory argue that it would legitimize virtually unlimited unilateral, forcible border changes because it confers an entitlement to its own state on every nation (or people" or distinct society).

In fact, they assert in "A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion," that rape "is in its very essence a sexual act" and that the practice may have evolved because it confers an evolutionary advantage.

Many animals and plants engage in sexual reproduction because it confers an advantage, and the fact that sex has been practised for many hundreds of millions of years by a vast plethora of lifeforms attests to its biological importance.

In this way a behavior may be very common not because it confers an evolutionary advantage, but because it is associated with a different beneficial trait.

This process has been called "species hitchhiking," as an analogy to genetic hitchhiking in which a variant of a gene spreads in a population over many generations not because it confers an advantage itself but because it is linked to a different gene that does (Wagner 1996; Levinton 2001).