Sentence examples for random traits from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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.

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 first simulation creates a mixed population from the founder haplotypes, after which we generate the random trait architecture.

The random trait generation was implemented in an auxiliary program that produces trait description files, which are included by forqs configuration files that specify the experimental setup.

We consider that gene neighboring is not a random trait and gives an adaptive advantage to the cell because the proteins produced are likely to perform related functions.