assort
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The law states that alleles of different genes assort independently of one another during gamete formation.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
This data helps retailers better understand their customers, leading to improvements in how they assort and design stores.Participation.
From Forbes ● Apr. 8, 2014
This occurs because chromosomes, on which the genes reside, assort independently during meiosis and crossovers cause most genes on the same chromosomes to also behave independently.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013
Many species, including primates and wolves, assort themselves by means of a dominance hierarchy.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 19, 2011
I could abide to dwell with Meshech, to assort with fisher-swains, and smugglers....
From Hastings and Neighbourhood by Walter Higgins
The values along each forked pathway can be multiplied because each gene assorts independently.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
She smiles, yet in a somewhat constrained fashion, that assorts ill with the inborn self-possession that as a rule characterizes her.
From Rossmoyne by Unknown
Then I proceed with the distinction, how ill fancy assorts with imagination, as instanced in Milton's Limbo.
From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
And here lies the weakness of the epicurean and artistic attitude, that it assorts so ill with the harder and grimmer facts of life.
From At Large by Arthur Christopher Benson
She assorts and arranges her goods by the law of the winds and the tides.
From Time and Change by John Burroughs
Inside were my elementary school report cards, two programs from concerts I played as a percussionist with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, and other assorted evidence of a childhood.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
After leaving professional campaign consulting in the mid-1990s, and making a substantial fortune in real estate, Reilly gave prolifically to various charities and assorted civic caucuses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
At a potluck, the assorted offerings—the masala potatoes, a church-basement casserole, a barbecue sauce perfected over decades—represent the best of individual traditions and stories of identity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Clover’s long, tasseled ears collect leaves, grass, and assorted debris on walks, and she scratches them out semiregularly.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2026
She was chinking more audibly than usual, as if a box of assorted household nails had come apart in one of her kimono pockets.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
Note that we are assuming the interacting genes are not linked; they are still assorting independently into gametes.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Mr Baker seems to be randomly assorting clips for a montage, and the characters feel so real and idiosyncratic that it’s riveting even without a clear sense of plot or direction.
From Economist ● Sep. 13, 2017
The same is true of Comic-Con’s purpose for the publishers, studios and assorting celebrities and creators who are involved.
From Time ● Sep. 5, 2012
Even without the new additions, Yale custodians had years of editing and assorting ahead of them.
From Time Magazine Archive
If Peter knew of this rule he said not one word to me as I sat back out of the wet, hived under the poke bonnet, squeezing color-tubes and assorting my brushes.
From The Other Fellow by Francis Hopkinson Smith
