Sentence examples for features of organisms from inspiring English sources
In the same way, they argued, some features of organisms exist simply as the result of how an organism develops or is built.
Later on, there is half a chapter on "exaptation" -- the idea that currently adaptive features of organisms may have originated as nonadaptive ancestral features.
Darwin's theory of evolution was meant to show how the fantastically complex features of organisms — eyes, beaks, brains — could arise without the intervention of a designing mind.
Selection comes about through random and naturally occurring variation in the physical features of organisms and through the ongoing competition within and between species for limited supplies of food and space.
It is not surprising, they insist, that many features of organisms have no obvious function, and in any case one must not assume too quickly that any apparent Bauplän is completely nonfunctional.
Second, and more commonly, the word adaptation refers either to the process of becoming adapted or to the features of organisms that promote reproductive success relative to other possible features.
On the Tripartite View, the third distinguishing feature of organisms is that they have a minimal level of functional autonomy of the relevant kind.
The next distinguishing feature of organisms according to the Tripartite View, something that helps separate organisms from other living things, is that they have life cycles that allow them to form reproductive lineages of a certain kind.
The degree of plasticity in metabolic networks that is uncovered by variable reaction center diameter is actually revealing an intrinsic feature of organisms linked to their adaptability, i.e. enzyme promiscuity.
And this seems to mirror an adaptive feature of organisms, often called "cheater detection": if another individual cannot be induced to cooperate regularly, abandon efforts to promote social behavior (see, e.g., Stevens and Hauser 2004).
ASE is a feature of organisms with genomes consisting of more than one set of homologous chromosomes.
