Sentence examples for evolved to combat from inspiring English sources

It's short for "clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats": repetitive stretches of DNA that bacteria have evolved to combat predatory viruses by slicing up the viral genomes.

Behaviours that reduce an animal's exposure to infectious parasites, from hiring cleaner fish to hiding dead corpses, probably evolved to combat the deadly pressure of disease, just as animals evolved camouflage to escape being gobbled up by toothy predators.

Social monogamy in some species may have evolved to combat this behavior.

This behavior likely evolved to combat starvation, as a bat cannot survive more than three nights without feeding.

Complex antioxidant defense systems have evolved to combat damaging ROS [17].

Such particles (e.g., microparticles, virosomes, and virus-like particles [VLPs]) have comparable dimensions to pathogens that the immune system evolved to combat, and therefore are naturally targeted for uptake by antigen-presenting cells (APCs) to facilitate the induction of potent immune responses [11].

It is wise to work out in advance the red lines you and your company will not cross and make sure everyone involved knows what they are.While Ms Carleson's book highlights the skills of individual intelligence officers, Mark Huband's "Trading Secrets" gives a glimpse of what spy agencies actually do and how they are evolving to combat new 21st-century threats.

They are evolving to combat overpopulation and overconsumption, basically.

Pathogens have evolved numerous strategies to successfully invade their hosts (acquire nutrients and evade immune system), and host defense systems are continually evolving to combat infections.

Bacteria have evolved mechanisms to combat the harmful effects of CAMPs [ 3].

Social problems are longstanding; interventions evolve to try to combat them; the success of a current scheme depends on its history' (Pawson et al. 2011).