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is adventitious
adjective
From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.
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The term, for root sprouts, is adventitious buds -- not advantageous.
Natural competency is internally established in an entrepreneur like personality traits, attitudes, self-image, and social role while artificial competency is adventitious like skill, knowledge and experience (Ismail, 2012).
Arsenic uptake is adventitious because arsenate and arsenite are chemically similar to the required nutrients [ 53].
The exception to this rule is when the presence of the GMO component is adventitious and unavoidable.
Our ICP-MS analysis indicated a stoichiometry of 0.3 mol Zn/mol QC, effectively ruling out the presence of two zinc atoms and suggesting the residual zinc presence is adventitious, although admittedly it is possible some zinc was lost during enzyme purification.
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The prop roots of corn, for example, are adventitious.
In true rainforests, grasses are adventitious (occurring in consequence of fortuitous intrusions).
Epicormic buds may be adventitious in origin or formed from dormant axillary trace buds.
But the power to punish as distinct from merely inflicting harm on others cannot be adventitious; it must be authoritative and institutionalized under the prevailing political regime.
To compare between the sensitivity of DYS14 gene and SRY gene for sex determination using dental pulp samples, real time PCR would be adventitious in measuring the quantity of the amplified DNA bands.
We do not know if Giotto intentionally used mixite as a green blue pigment or if it was adventitious with the azurite, though given the rarity of the mineral, the latter is more probabale.
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