Sentence examples for external traits from inspiring English sources

After that, each was carried to term in the uterus of still another dog — a step which, though it has no bearing on the dogs' genetic makeup, can affect such external traits as the waviness of fur and the up-or-down pointing of the ears.

He collects an engaging array of actors whose external traits — gender, skin color, accent, body type, attire, posture, tone of voice — seem to suggest a great deal more about them than the movie itself, than Scott himself, has any interest in.

It is possible that these external traits are linked to the chemical composition of the cactus, but it could also be that their power is purely symbolic.

And statutory safeguards could be afforded for sensitive external traits about whether a suspect has changed genders, for example, or had plastic surgery.

To do so I ask my students to participate in Harvard University's Project Implicit, which began simply focused on external traits of skin color and gender but which now "tests" participants for a variety of implicit assumptions.

When unambiguous, birds were sexed by external traits (blackcaps, great tits, blackbirds).

For these reasons, external meristic traits were preferred over morphometric traits, as the latter are further complicated by allometry, which allow us to include also juvenile specimens in the study.

External morphological traits were chosen for these analyses because they could be quickly and reliably measured [ 32], and because morphological traits generally have higher heritabilities than life-history traits [ 26].

Though his initial goal seems to be to prove that in every way except external physical traits, women are fully equal to men, most of his treatise argues for the superiority, rather than equality, of women.

We measured external morphological traits of the flight apparatus to compare between Northern Wheatears of the four currently recognised sub-species with different migratory behaviour (Figure 1).

For example, standardized photographs of individuals allow quantifying many external morphological traits.