Sentence examples for selected effect from inspiring English sources

The first, TATAAA, has been maintained by natural selection to bind a transcription factor; hence, its selected effect function is to bind this transcription factor.

Biological practice harbors at least four separate meanings of function (Wouters 2003, 2005): activity (what something does), causal role (contribution to a capacity), fitness advantage or viability (value of having something), and selected effect or etiology (origination and maintenance via natural selection).

Causal role, viability, and selected effect are all use-functions.

It too focuses on a particular variety of function, though in a way different from either selected effect or viability interpretations.

Thus, the second sequence has no selected effect function, but its causal role function is to bind a transcription factor.

We did not detect a statistically significant deviation from predictions for either of the selected effect levels (Table 3).

We also endorse this conception, but hold that selected effects can arise at any level at which selection is deemed to occur (Doolittle et al. 2014).

Additionally, the HD analysis claims that a mechanism's natural functions are its naturally selected effects.

For the HMNL and LCMNL models, we report selected effects of respondent-characteristics on the scale-parameter and latent-class membership.

There are many versions of this broadly "etiological" approach, many of which are more complicated than just identifying functions individually with selected effects.

Despite the benefits of ecotoxicity tests, it must not be neglected that these tests can indicate only selected effects on organisms.