Sentence examples for proportion of organisms from inspiring English sources
Of the small proportion of organisms preserved as fossils, only a tiny fraction have been recovered and studied by paleontologists.
"The surprise is that a proportion of organisms can actually be driven to extinction," he says.
Because there is heritable variation within a population of conspecifics with respect to traits that imbue those organisms with differing levels of fitness, natural selection can increase the proportion of organisms with traits that promote fitness.
Statistical tests of all populations in the 70th generation showed that in all sessions the proportion of organisms where the regression was significantly (P<0.05) negative was above 93%.
The fitness curves are presented in Figures 8 and 9. Statistical tests of all populations at the 100th generation showed that in all sessions the proportion of organisms where the regression was significantly (P<0.05) negative (LTP) or positive (LTD) was above 81%.
Antibiotics are selction agents that quickly increase the proportion of organisms that can resist them.
What dictates the kinds and proportions of organisms in a community?
We identified a significant change in the profile of the proportions of organisms demonstrating resistance to seven antimicrobials.
Between period A and C, there were significant decreases in the proportions of organisms resistant to ampicillin, decreasing from 75%to48%8%, and chloramphenicol, decreasing from 66%to30%0%.
In cluster-randomized studies of antimicrobial resistance, both the incidence rate of infection with resistant organisms in the population and the ratio of resistant to susceptible (or proportion of total organisms that are resistant) would be appropriate study endpoints.
A double-blind, randomized, single-center study of 24 patients at high risk of MDR organisms found that aerosolized gentamicin or amikacin every 8 hours for 2 weeks eradicated a significantly larger proportion of MDR organisms present at baseline compared with placebo (P < 0.0001) [ 87].
