Given their versatility, population-based family studies could become a principal framework in epidemiology, and move genetics from its traditional focus on high-risk families to give it a wider clinical and population health relevance.
Plasticity in itself is likely important to the versatility of populations to respond to climate change.
In prokaryotes, genome size is associated with metabolic versatility, regulatory complexity, effective population size, and horizontal transfer rates.
Attributes such as regenerative plasticity, high fecundity, cultural adaptability, range of ploidy, economics of culture and maintenance of specific populations, and versatility make plant genetic systems prime candidates with which to monitor the environment for mutagens.
One cannot exclude a phenotype versatility of all these progenitor populations upon specific local stimuli.
The heterogeneity present in tumor cell populations also justifies more versatility in the choice of therapeutic regimen available to physicians.
As a consequence of this profound developmental versatility, even individuals composed of cell populations derived from different plant species are viable and can coordinate the growth and development of chimeric organs.
Offense specialization and versatility have been investigated in general offender populations, but have only recently been examined in sexual offenders.
In actual neural media, populations of neurons could take advantage of such versatility, and they could use the high heterogeneity of synaptic properties [36] to organize groups of neurons with non-resonance, single-resonance or two-resonance peak behavior.
This metabolic versatility may contribute to fitness, and help explain haptophyte prevalence within global algal populations.
A viable population being one that establishes successfully, and in which the behavioural performance and versatility of the progeny is not degraded [ 5].
