Sentence examples for biological chance from inspiring English sources

At one level, of course, it's just the workings of biological chance.

The middle columns on the right give the probability of obtaining the given transcript numbers for each biological class by chance.

Mr. Smiley said, "I'm hoping, I'm praying that this will also give the biological parents a chance for some closure".

Djerassi's is a future of sexuality rather than sex; it offers a welcome silence from the increasingly deafening tick of the biological clock – a chance for women to have the greater leisure in reproduction that nature reserves for men.

Although variations and even outliers that can be introduced by technical issues or experimental variations that have nothing to do with biological relevance, the chance that multiple related genes in a pathway or biological process have such issues simultaneously should be rare.

From early ideas about succession [21], [22] through more recent debates about community assembly [23], [24] to current research into macroecological patterns [25], the debate as to whether perceived patterns in ecosystem properties are the result of chance, biological processes or bias in the data has been an enduring theme in ecological research.

The origin of a complex system capable of performing a biological function by chance might appear nonsensical.

Clinically measured blood pressure incorporates the effects of chance (biological) variation on blood pressure and cholesterol measurement.

Furthermore, the outputs from these databases provide an estimate of significance (P-values) indicating how likely a gene list is enriched for a given biological function by chance alone.

Chimeric alignments may alternatively be explained by (i) chance biological similarity, e.g. in fast-evolving regions; (ii) convergent evolution due to similar selection pressure in different lineages; (iii) naturally occurring chimeras due to biological processes such as lateral gene transfer; (iv) sequencer error; or (v) poor-quality alignments.

First of all, traditional statistical methods highlight relationships among variables based only on mathematical criteria (e.g. maximizing variance or correlation among variables) and thereby do not always distinguish between correlations from biological origin and chance correlations that may arise because of the high dimensionality of the data and measurement noise.