Sentence examples for lost trait from inspiring English sources

When a formerly lost trait re-emerges in 'throwback' form, the resulting atavism (from the Latin atavus for ancestor, or literally great-great-great grandfather) is a kind of re-appearing artifact.

Repeat this with each perceived lost trait.

What was once called "good old American know-how" may seem like a lost trait, but it isn't lost.

As a consequence of this putative lost trait, mevalonate should be hypothetically imported from the environment (i.e. the insect host), a situation that would suggest a new case of metabolic complementation between the bacterial endosymbiont and its host.

Begin with the first lost trait and look in your life to see where the form changed to (e.g. my brother now acts like my father, or my friend is taking on the new trait, etc).

The fact that genes--and a lost trait--may be reincorporated into a species "may represent a common theme in plant evolution," says Loren Rieseberg, an evolutionary biologist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

Fig. 3 Development of lost traits: the hindlimbs of cetaceans.

Finally, there are many instances of convergence, where multiple lineages have gained or lost traits independently.

Consider the many independent losses of traits related to feeding and locomotion in endoparasitic lineages, for instance, the lost traits often having evolved only once in a common ancestor.

For example, undergraduate biology students said that organisms lost traits over time because they did not use them or that the organism shifted energy allocation to other more important processes, but did not use those ideas to respond to items about trait gain (Nehm and Ha 2011).

Our results imply that the domestication process accelerated large-scale genomic deletions in the lineage of Asian cultivated rice and that the close relatives of cultivated rice have the potential to restore the lost traits.