Sentence examples for elite population from inspiring English sources

The apocalypse is caused by an uncontrollable virus which scythes through the elite population, and Jimmy is left to starve in a desolate wasteland, the last human being, surrounded by Crake's wandering automata.

"We're studying an elite population at the service academies, but the big concern for me is the girl down the street who wants to play soccer on the rec team or the travel team," Marshall told me.

At a place like Midwood, which draws on a less elite population than city schools with admission exams, like the traditional powerhouses Stuyvesant and the Bronx High School of Science, the Intel contest provides the flame that heats a new, high-tech version of the melting pot myth.

The elite population is directly transferred to the next generation.

In this mating process, one parent from the elite population and another from a non-elite population are selected to produce the offspring.

As elite population individuals are less as compared to non-elite, repetition of parents is allowed.

If elite populations of high-stiffness seedlots were subsequently grown and silvicultural treatments applied for a designated end use, the purpose-bred and purpose-grown trees could potentially realise even greater benefits upon harvest.

Tuxpeño elite populations have been widely used in maize breeding in the tropics and also the improved OPVs studied in Bellon and Taylor (1993) [ 52] were Tuxpeño derived.

To estimate the genetic diversity, we calculated the average pairwise divergence within a population and the Watterson's estimator (θ w ) [ 22] for the whole genome of wild, landrace, and elite populations.

The breeder is not always willing to evaluate and explore the diverse accessions that compose a core collection, unless there is known variation for specific traits directly related to the needs of his elite populations.

In recent decades breeding of annual crops has further increased their reproductive allocation by bringing previously unavailable genetic variation (e.g., for dwarfing in Oryza and Triticum) into elite populations and continuing artificial selection under conditions of improved fertility, weed and disease control (Evans and Fischer 1999).