Sentence examples for random trait from inspiring English sources

To investigate the extent to which transition in spine length along cactus phylogeny was associated with parasitism, we performed tests for correlated evolution between spine length and parasitism by assessing the fit of data to a model of random trait evolution (no correlation between variables) and to a model of correlated trait evolution.

It involves comparing the predictive accuracy of a "censored" evolutionary model, one that invokes only natural selection, and an alternative "uncensored" model that invokes additional evolutionary influences such as genetic drift (random trait change caused by population number being finite), or constraints caused by the way the trait is determined genetically or developmentally.

To simulate ER QTL, individuals with genotype 2 were assigned random trait values sampled from a normal distribution with mean zero and σ = 1.5.

To simulate ER+GR QTL, individuals with genotype 2 were assigned random trait values sampled from a normal distribution with mean = +/−2 and σ = 1.5.

All individuals from genotype 1 were assigned random trait values sampled from a normal distribution with mean zero and σ = 1.

To simulate GR QTL, individuals with genotype 2 were assigned random trait values sampled from a normal distribution with mean = +/−2 (+2 for half the strains and −2 for the other half) and σ = 1.

The reader sometimes feels as though Jack had been cobbled together from random traits pasted onto a deliberately enigmatic core that lacks the existential power of Stark's Parker or Lee Child's Reacher.

Your generals gain the traits you want them to gain, doing away with the old system in Napoleon where your general would pick up random traits as the game went on.

A small number of the critics argued that many of the observed abnormal traits were biased to the legs, antenna, and wings; therefore, these non-random traits were unlikely to originate from random genetic mutations.

But, if she is fertilized by force, then her offspring will inherit either random display traits or traits that she has specifically rejected as less attractive.

This is likely due to the fact that dog breeds as populations are not subject to Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium: matings are not random, and traits are deliberately selected for or against by human breeders.