Sentence examples for property of traits from inspiring English sources

Some philosophers (notably Sober, 2013) have argued that evolutionary fitness is a property of populations and not of individual organisms, or alternatively that fitness is a property of traits and not of the individuals that possess them.

The disagreement about whether fitness is a property of biological individuals (genes, genotypes, organisms, families, populations and other groups or even species) as opposed to a property of traits of these individuals, has made significant another debate about the explanatory role of fitness in the theory of natural selection.

However, since both methods suffer from drawbacks, complementary use of farmers' trait preferences and bio-economic modeling would enable the combination of farmers' indigenous knowledge and choices and the genetic properties of traits and their accurate economic values.

The application of a multiple QTL model in real data set is useful in determining the genetic properties of traits, even if loci are located on different chromosomes.

Despite the remarkable extent of plasticity and local adaptation, appropriate and sufficient responses to climate change are not assured because of the uncertain rate and nature of climate change, the genetic properties of traits, the effects of invasive species, and other stressors (e.g. hatcheries, fishing, hydroelectric dams).

We focused on three main properties of trait pairs: the correlation among traits in a pair; the correlation between a trait pair and the transcripts; and the knowledge-based relationships among traits.

Also, we propose a protocol with which key can be revoked thus addressing the limitation of irrevocability property of biometric trait.

Sceptics argue that it confounds a number of distinctions that are better kept separate, or, perhaps equivalently, that there is no one property of a trait that corresponds to its being innate.

The fact that the haloarchaeal group of split cytochromes b again phylogenetically emanates from the region of the tree that harbors the "green branches" reinforces the molecular marker property of this trait.

Nevertheless, the important requirements of our model – an imperfect correlation of mutational effects between males and females, and a polygenic basis to trait variance – are general properties of quantitative traits (Mackay 2001; Poissant et al. 2010), which render our predictions broadly applicable.

We now determine the impact of imperfect sensitivity and specificity on the properties of indicator traits such as somatic cell count.