Sentence examples for slight defect from inspiring English sources

Although mutants lacking ChePep have normal flagellar ultrastructure and are motile, they have a slight defect in swarming ability.

In Williams's play, the character Laura has a slight "defect": she used to wear a leg brace, but now seems to stumble only when pushed out of the safety of her domestic isolation; she is "crippled" primarily in her imagination.

After completing his education in 1944, Hart wanted to join the RAF during the Second World War as a rear-gunner, but had a slight defect in one eye, so was commissioned into the Indian Army's 1st Gurkha Rifles.

On serum, the hda1Δ/Δ mutant showed a slight defect in hyphal formation.

Fifth, PRV Bartha has a slight defect in retrograde spread to cell bodies after entry at axons.

Thus, we believe Chk1 haploinsufficiency causes a slight defect in normal erythropoiesis and in the presence of stress.

Those sold as "extra class" must be perfect, "class 1" can have "slight defects of shape" and "class 2" can have full-scale "defects of shape".

Commission Regulation (EC) 2257/94, for example, states that bananas sold in Europe must be "free from malformation or abnormal curvature," though Class 1 bananas can have "slight defects of shape," and Class 2 bananas can have full "defects of shape".

The existing literature on the chaperone deficiencies studied here offers potential interpretation of the observed phenotype: Egd2 and Lhs1 decline causes slight defects in protein import into the mitochondria23,24 and the ER25, as well as folding impairment in the ER lumen25.

In the group, contributors show off their failures-turned-art, which range from nearly-finished models with slight defects to total plastic spaghetti.

On the other hand, Pax6 heterozygous mice/rats are viable and fertile, and show slight defects in formation of the eyes, olfactory bulb and cerebrum [34], [45] [47].