organismic

How To Use organismic In A Sentence

• But angiosperm life forms and niches are so varied, with much of their organismic machinery being cells where size matters, that a vast spectrum of cell-size has been favoured by selection.
• However, melanin deposition in feather melanocytes has strong links with the capacity of the antioxidant and immune systems, two crucial fitness-enhancing organismic functions.
• From the beginning the emphasis in these journals has been mainly on organismic genetics in a wide variety of animals and plants, and in the early years, on eugenics.
• It allows for the test of a number of biologically important variables in organismic development, for example, the timing of maximal growth rate and the duration of linear growth phase.
• Thus Dawkins, for example, used facts about inheritance, e.g. that genes are faithfully replicated across generations while whole genotypes and organismic characters are not, to privilege the gene as the unit of selection.
• Lazarus defined emotions as a complex, patterned organismic reaction to how we think we are doing in life.
• This step in evolution - the acquisition of stable diploidy - was the second prerequisite for evolution of organismic complexity.
• Neuroscience, for him, more or less just identifies organismic physical processes that underlie animal/environment interactions.
• In the chain of life there is an organismic relationship among things.
• Applying these ideas to the design of organismic bodies, we note that the supportive materials of plants and animals are based on fibrous macromolecules-cellulose in plants and collagen and chitin in animals.