Sentence examples for modify nature from inspiring English sources

In the nineteen-forties, Conrad Waddington, an English embryologist, had proposed an ingenious answer: cells acquired their identities just as humans do — by letting nurture (environmental signals) modify nature (genes).

After many years of development, biologists have learned how to modify nature's DNA recognition system into a general system for manipulating genes.

That is, they are media of "indirect" teleological positing because they enable forms of action which do not directly modify nature but which indirectly aspire to bring other persons to do so (GW 14: 1968 1428: 142).

Due to the highly modified nature of histones and the numerous PTM combinations that can result, reliably assigning modifications to histone peptides can be difficult.

We used two different approaches to deal with the distortions caused by the highly modified nature of symbiotic genomes, which are the main source of the phylogenetic artifacts in phylogenetic analyses.

The nature of a native taxon's ecological relationship with the invader will necessarily modify the nature of impact.

Temperature does not modify the nature of the critical dynamics.

The advantage of the second method is to easily modify the nature of the bridging spacer between the macrocycles.

The effects of non-thermal negative ions have been found to modify the nature of the DIA SWs structures in a dusty plasma.

Genetic mutation is the ultimate source of novelty in biological evolution but again, the vast majority of mutations modify the nature of preexisting structures rather than produce utterly new features.

The results, which have been found in this investigation may be pointed out as follows: (1) The effects of non-thermal negative ions have been found to modify the nature of the DIA SWs structures in a dusty plasma.