Sentence examples for for a genus from inspiring English sources

"He'd get a passion for a genus of plant.

Lotus is the Latin name for a genus of the pea family (Fabaceae), containing about 100 species distributed in temperate regions of Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America.

South American Nothofagus species show highly variable germination behaviour, as expected for a genus that occupies a wide geographic and ecological range.

Quality and quantity, then, do not function like genera, for a genus is signified by any predicate that expresses what a subject is (e.g., in the sentence, 'Man is an animal,'animalal' is the genus of man), and categories do not function in this way.

Following Filippo Parlatore in 1845, the name Leopoldia was used for a genus of grape hyacinth species, allied to Muscari.

The name Volvaria was already taken, as it had been coined by De Candolle for a genus of lichens in 1805.

The assay design theoretically permits the probe to be used either with one set of primers for species-level determination or with a combination of all three primer sets for a genus-level screening of samples.

Samples for which a species-specific signal cannot be obtained should always be tested for a genus-specific signal to ensure that Brucella sp is not missed.

In 2003, Cabral started a Ph.D. with Sales, her first-degree adviser, on Vitex L. (Vitex for short), a genus of flowering shrubs and trees that grow mainly in tropical areas.

Because the geographic range of a genus during one interval is partially dependent upon its geographic range in the previous time interval, the geographic range estimates for a single genus are not independent [51].

If a single origin is inferred for phenotypically similar taxa within a genus, for instance, the role of selection in generating morphological and species diversity may be underestimated [ 15, 16].