Sentence examples for is lethal to from inspiring English sources
Chemical synthetic lethality is obtained when inhibition of a gene product is lethal to cells which present other mutations.
The corn is engineered to contain a gene that is lethal to a common pest.
The strain is lethal to chickens, but not to other birds like ducks.
Resmethrin is lethal to fish and crustaceans in amounts of only a few parts per billion.
If this sounds incomprehensible, that's mission accomplished: public understanding is lethal to this attempted corporate coup.
The H5N1 bird flu, by contrast, is lethal to poultry, and infected flocks are usually culled.
Salvarsan, a synthetic preparation containing arsenic, is lethal to the microorganism responsible for syphilis.
But it is lethal to European and American species, which have evolved no resistance to the disease.
But while it is working it is lethal to beneficials as well as evildoers, so target only those areas where the problem is severe.
Oxitec's approach involves releasing non-biting males - which have been genetically engineered to carry a gene that is lethal to their offspring - to mate with wild females.
