How To Use two-humped In A Sentence
- One, found in northern Africa and central Asia, consists of the dromedary (one-humped camel) and bactrian camels (two-humped camel).
- The two-humped beasts could provide valuable salt-tolerance genes for domestic livestock, allowing them to thrive in previously hostile areas.
- Camels, both the one-humped Arabian or dromedary and the two-humped Bactrian variety, have been used to support campaigns in desert areas from biblical times onwards.
- In dromedaries - and also in two-humped Asian camels and South American llamas - about half the antibodies circulating in the blood lack a light chain.
- Most biologists consider it the direct descendant of the ancestor of the domesticated two-humped species.
- One group eventually crossed the Bering Land Bridge to Asia where, following an evolutionary path that's only sketchily understood, it became the two-humped Bactrian camel and the one-humped dromedary.
- Some think that today's one-humped dromedary also derived from this two-humped camel ancestor.
