Sentence examples for materials for evolution from inspiring English sources

Why do textbooks use fruit flies with an extra pair of wings as evidence that DNA mutations can supply raw materials for evolution — even though the extra wings have no muscles and these disabled mutants cannot survive outside the laboratory?

Fewer teaching materials for evolution have been developed in Japan than in the U.S. and the UK and are hardly introduced in Japanese biology textbooks, particularly for evolutionary mechanisms such as natural selection (Sato and Ohshika 2005).

Phenotypic variation provides the raw materials for evolution by natural selection.

It also contributes to genetic diversity by generating new combinations of alleles, thereby providing raw materials for evolution [ 1, 2].

This is because gene duplications lead to raw materials for evolution to act on [ 8, 9] and they are a common feature of most eukaryotic species [ 10].

A: In the very few textbooks that discuss four-winged fruit flies, they are used as an illustration of how genes can reprogram parts of the body to produce novel structures, thus indeed providing "raw material" for evolution.

It is the relentless shifting and mutating, the probing and testing of every possibility on the part of DNA, after all, that generates the raw material for evolution to act on and ensures the success of life on Earth (and perhaps beyond).

Finally, the ecogenomics changes act as raw material for evolution.

And that's a lot of new material for evolution to work on.

Natural selection acts on individual organisms and the range of characteristics displayed by individual hybrids constitute raw material for evolution.

But there could be a silver lining: These changes also "provide raw material for evolution to happen" and that may enable individuals besieged by viruses to come up with better antiviral defenses, she says.