Sentence examples for degree of adaptive from inspiring English sources

Studies of the lamprey's immune system in the 1960s and '70s revealed that it has some degree of adaptive immunity, tailoring its immune response to fend off pathogens it has never encountered.

To avoid any misconception, the instructor could easily lead discussion by adding in one or two species which haven't undergone the same degree of adaptive radiation as those generated by the class (in Fig. 1b, illustrated by N1 and N2).

Having established the connection between watches and watchmakers, Paley begins his third chapter by arguing that the principle applies equally to living organisms and their components—or indeed, more so, given that their degree of adaptive complexity is vastly greater.

Compared to other countries, the World Risk Index (Welle et al. 2013) of Germany is very low due to a lower degree of susceptibility and exposure to extreme events and a higher degree of adaptive and coping capacity.

The central problem with using conspicuous polymorphisms for investigating the relative roles of the variety of different evolutionary forces is that it is not an unbiased sample of genetic diversity with respect to either degree of adaptive function or amount of genetic variation.

Also absent from these genomes are the hallmarks of selection for efficiency at the translational level, as these species have moderate numbers of tRNA genes (average 52) and a moderate degree of adaptive bias in codon usage [5].

Consequently, the predominant taxa exhibit different degrees of adaptive strategies.

The nonzero slopes of phylogenetic regressions (pGLS models; Table 1; Figure 2) indicate that many leaf-physiognomic traits show varying degrees of adaptive responses to temperature (as well as significant and varying phylogenetic signal as previously discussed).

Yet, the candidate barriers predicted by our model are hypothesized to result in taxa expressing continuous degrees of adaptive and non-adaptive divergence, thus allowing these processes to be investigated directly in the field.

In this paper, we analyze it as a two-degree-of-freedom adaptive control for general time invariant linear plant with adaptive controller in the feedforward path.

The feedback error learning method is formulated as a two-degree-of-freedom adaptive control.