Sentence examples for example of discontinuous from inspiring English sources

As that end moved around, the disc would suddenly flip to a drastically different position, a vivid example of discontinuous behaviour resulting from a continuously changing cause.

One is the ring-shaped distribution (Fig. 2b) as an example of discontinuous heterogeneity on the plate interface.

Thus, the ring-shaped distribution is not just a characteristic of numerical simulations, and is considered a typical spatial distribution of afterslip and an example of discontinuous heterogeneity on the plate interface.

Each saltational species exhibits a markedly different and discrete example of discontinuous trait evolution while remaining canalized for other typical traits shared by the rest of the genus.

This extreme example of discontinuous phenotypic variation supports a model of evolution by heterochrony: larval morphological traits of ancestral metamorphic forms are observed in the adult stages of derived paedomorphic forms.

Groundwater level monitoring networks are the examples of discontinuous sampling on variables presenting spatial continuity and highly skewed frequency distributions.

For gold sputtering, the time periods of 30 and 300 s were determined as representative examples of discontinuous and continuous layers [19, 36].

Although most rRNAs are coded by a contiguous gene, many examples of discontinuous coding within the rRNA have been documented.

Alternative reproductive tactics (ARTs) are among the most spectacular examples of discontinuous phenotypic variation within species (reviewed in: Gross 1996; Brockmann 2001; Shuster and Wade 2003; Oliveira et al. 2008).

To date the only other examples of discontinuous mitochondrial rRNA genes in Metazoans have been documented in Placozoans, which are considered to be the most primitive animals.

Although many examples of discontinuous ribosomal genes have been documented in bacteria and archaea, as well as the nuclei, chloroplasts, and mitochondria of eukaryotes, oysters are the first characterized examples of fragmented bilateral animal mitochondrial rRNA genes.