Sentence examples for derived nature from inspiring English sources
Our results highlight the derived nature of the glyptodont morphotype, one aspect of which is a spectacular increase in body size until their extinction at the end of the last ice age.
The link between certain frond-like Ediacarans and sea pens has been thrown into doubt by multiple lines of evidence; chiefly the derived nature of the most frond-like pennatulacean octocorals, their absence from the fossil record before the Tertiary, and the apparent cohesion between segments in Ediacaran frond-like organisms.
This finding was not unexpected, as around 25% of Nasonia genes are more similar to human genes than to their Drosophila counterparts, reflecting the derived nature of many Drosophila genes [127].
Apicomplexans possess a specialized apical complex suggesting their derived nature, but other ultrastructural characteristics point to their position as ancestral to another large eukaryotic clade, the Alveolates [38] [39].
For the S7 population, standard QTL mapping approaches were not appropriate due to its back-cross derived nature.
A similar argument can be used to support the derived nature of the gracilicute RNA polymerase insertions discussed above.
The Oxford Dictionary defines natural as "existing in or derived from nature; not made or caused by humankind".
But while it is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all, it would be singular to admit a natural and even an hereditary right to inventors.
(The notion is distinct from that of a natural law i.e., a law of right or justice supposedly derived from nature).
We build our cities from stone, brick, steel, concrete, glass and bitumen – all derived from nature.
