Sentence examples similar to pointless replication from inspiring English sources
The fair is a contest between trompe l'oeil wizardry and truth-to-materials integrity, pointless replications of traditional techniques and genuine innovation.
Even expansion to a relatively small eukaryotic genome size of 100 Mb would mean that 40% of the cell's energy budget would need to be spent on totally pointless DNA replication, which would undoubtedly be penalized by selection, as noted by Koonin.
(Cotter) Marc Quinn: 'All the Time in the World' (closes on Saturday) Four much enlarged, bronze sculptures of seashells made by high-tech 3-D replication seem, at first, like pointless baubles for rich collectors.
Thus if a replication fails, it could be because the repeaters didn't quite get these je-ne-sais-quoi bits of the protocol right.Taken to extremes, this leads to what Dr Collins calls "the experimenter's regress"—you can say an experiment has truly been replicated only if the replication gets the same result as the original, a conclusion which makes replication pointless.
Every day seems pointless.
The replication is meticulous.
