ADJECTIVE
- not resistant
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(often followed by `to') likely to be affected with
liable to diabetes
How To Use nonresistant In A Sentence
- However, these resistance-conferring alleles are often accompanied by a reduction in fitness relative to the nonresistant wild type that is exposed in the absence of the selective agent.
- If the farmer chooses a nonresistant variety and the spring emergence of adult sawflies is large, there is only a 1-to 2-week period in which to spray insecticides.
- This suggests that UV-resistant species might take advantage of an increased UV-B permeation, whereas nonresistant species could be eliminated.
- So first the farmer must decide whether to plant a higher yielding, nonresistant variety or one that's resistant and that directs more of its energy into making thick stems.
- She has adapted a faster laboratory test that uses color to distinguish coumaphos-resistant ticks from nonresistant ones.
- The suppression of immune responses is costly, in particular for nonresistant individuals with high levels of somatic infections.
- Nonresistant sects, notably Mennonites and Brethren, also developed active forms of pacifism such as humanitarian service for war victims.
- But he said the opposite scenario is that more subclinically ill food animals would go to the processing plants, leading to many more human cases of nonresistant Campylobacter infection.
- Quinolones are safe and effective for treating nonresistant gonococcal infections.
- It is important to recognize that resistance also affects the treatment of individuals with nonresistant organisms.