Sentence examples for primary adaptation from inspiring English sources

For those abandoning a marine environment the primary adaptation was a physiologic one that would permit survival in a considerably less saline, more dilute external medium.

The answer is that early wings did not function in flight but served a different function (primary adaptation).

Therefore, the original function of DNA, or its primary adaptation, may have been for defensive purposes as opposed to replicative.

While there are crossover organisms- organisms that exist in two or more extremes, like heat plus acid or cold plus pressure, most of them have a primary adaptation that is within one of these categories which tends to be the most easily identifiable one.

It is also worth noting that our adapting luminances (185 to 1295 Td) fall mainly in the range where the primary adaptation site at least in monkey retina is at the receptoral rather than post-receptoral level [35].

Two primary adaptation measures deal with the effects of climate change on air pollution.

Most complex organs are likely to represent a mixture of primary adaptations, exaptations, and secondary adaptations.

The primary adaptations seen in the respiratory organs of water-breathers living in oxygen-poor waters are associated with gill diffusing capacity.

As a result, each integrated and refined system ends up as a mosaic of primary adaptations, exaptations, and secondary adaptations mixed in with a bunch of other stuff with yet to be determined futures.

This suggests that a focus on cellular and biochemical mechanisms is appropriate and may reveal the primary adaptations allowing freeze tolerance in insects.

Some of these projects will potentially lead to proactive primary adaptations to reduce exposure (Casimiro et al. 2001).