Sentence examples for instead of reproduction from inspiring English sources

In order to generate a new population the probability distribution is used instead of reproduction operators.

In conclusion, a stressful environment causes unicellular organisms to conserve cellular resources by directing them into maintenance instead of reproduction.

If the regime and its supporters had just looked outside their windows during those fateful spring and summer months of 2011, they would have seen real scenes of unity and bravery instead of callous reproductions.

A year later, after The Saturday Evening Post printed the pictures instead, millions of reproductions were taped to store windows, iceboxes and schoolroom blackboards.

Particularly in arctic or alpine habitats, where opportunities for fertilisation of flowers by animals are rare, plantlets or bulbs, may develop instead of flowers, replacing sexual reproduction with asexual reproduction and giving rise to clonal populations genetically identical to the parent.

Even a worker who successfully replaces only the queen's sons may have some negative effects on the queen's daughters through the reduction in colony output due to her pursuing of reproduction instead of work.

A conventional tenet of classical genetics is that progeny inherit half their genome from each parent in sexual reproduction instead of the complete genome transferred to each daughter during asexual reproduction.

Instead, it holds that lack of reproduction has given rise to the menopause.

But instead it fell not for want of reproduction, but because people were leaving it in droves.

Cloning too, although controversial, could help preserve animal diversity rather than reduce it, by allowing single cells to be stored for future reproduction (instead of the messy and unreliable business of semen collection and artificial insemination).But there is a big gulf between what biotechnology can do in principle and how, in the developing world, it will be used in practice.

Rhizobia investing their energy and resources on their own growth and reproduction instead of nitrogen conversion would seemingly come out ahead, so why do the rhizobia keep putting out?