Sentence examples for trait by which from inspiring English sources
Root system architecture is an important agronomic trait by which plants both acquire water and nutrients from the soil and adapt to survive in a complex environment.
Another critical trait by which females influence offspring survival is egg size.
Invasion is an important pathogenesis trait by which C. jejuni causes disease.
This provides a mechanism over and above the passing on of genes—hence the prefix "epi" (Greek for over or above)—by which traits can be transferred from one generation to the next.
But there are also less predictable qualities -- ones less likely, I'd imagine, to be among those traits by which faculty hiring committees are most impressed.
This review focuses on a conceptual framework for genetic mapping of complex traits by which to delineate the underlying components, interactions and mechanisms that govern the system according to biological principles and understand how these components function synergistically under the control of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) to comprise a unified whole.
The content of obligation was thus not defined; instead, in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew) and other New Testament literature, it is the criteria (motivations, ethical norms, personality traits) by which the rule of God is recognized upon which the emphasis falls.
This is not to say that the end of literary studies is a set of historical propositions or the capacity to recognize unerringly the traits by which a work betrays the time and place of its origin; nor is this to deny that a man lacking such a foundation can sometimes comprehend and evaluate books with considerable penetration.
An important background to this is defining the domestication syndrome, those traits by which domesticated plants differ from wild relatives.
The primary dimension of psychopathic-like traits by which the HIA-CP children were distinguished from the other groups was impulsivity.
Alternatively, the included traits may not necessarily be those that ultimately cause trait fitness variation, but rather phenotypic traits by which the effects of the causal traits are mediated.
