Sentence examples for biological oddity from inspiring English sources

But — as far as anyone knew — the birds were a biological oddity.

And thanks to a biological oddity – rather than playing several games at Chester-le-Street – he has perspired less than any of his peers.

Once thought to be a biological oddity, these cellular components' strange shape may actually indicate a potential new role for mitochondria in the brain.

e360: You've mentioned that ginkgo is something of a biological oddity in that it's a single species with no living relatives.

Unlike other creepy-crawlies, such as crickets, male spiders have poor eyesight and cannot spot from afar if the female reproductive tracts are indeed stuffed or vacant.But the silver lining, as it turns out, is blunted by a peculiar biological oddity.

Despite the recognized regulatory potential of complementary RNA, antisense transcription in mammals was long perceived as a biological oddity.

Precursors to the modern museum, wunderkammers combined biological oddities, zoological rarities and geological specimens in displays with works of art.

But "disease" harks back to an outmoded and repressive standard, when we were no longer shunned and feared as monsters and freaks but, alas, studied as biological oddities, as puzzles to solve.

Madagascar also contains giant geckos that blend-in perfectly with tree bark, giant silk moths,a weevil with a neck so long it's named after the giraffe, plump baobab trees, chameleons so small they fit on a human fingernail and hedgehog-like mammals that can give birth to 30-plus babies (tenrecs) among a slew of other biological oddities and wonders.

They considered women who engaged in sexual relations with other women to be biological oddities that would attempt to penetrate women and sometimes men with "monstrously enlarged" clitorises.

Overcoming the human suspicion of oddity will be hard, the more so because the biological basis of many brain disorders can't be easily verified.