assort
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Genes that are located far apart on the same chromosome are likely to assort independently.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Therefore, genes that are far apart on the same chromosome are likely to still assort independently because of recombination events that occurred in the intervening chromosomal space.
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
Many species, including primates and wolves, assort themselves by means of a dominance hierarchy.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 19, 2011
Her brain was a whirlpool of new impressions, most of them not at all favourable, and she had not yet had time to assort them and put them into mental pigeon-holes.
From For the School Colours by Angela Brazil
The values along each forked pathway can be multiplied because each gene assorts independently.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
To be a "politic," clever fellow, a vast deal more humoring of prejudices, errors, and follies, is requisite, than at all assorts with true honesty of character.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various
Next day he assorts the packages of a group in a till similar to those already described, except that it is laid flat upon a low counter.
From The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. by Various
The true teacher after large preparation assorts his material, and selects such matter as is appropriate to his own class.
From Organizing and Building Up the Sunday School Modern Sunday School Manuals by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
This introduction of white smooth stone, assorts ill with the dull reddish-brown mass all around it, and produces a glaring and disagreeable effect.
From Architectural Antiquities of Normandy by John Sell Cotman
Also included is what has become a trademark for the band’s reissue sets, a gorgeous full-color 100-page book of liner notes, interviews, lyrics, photographs and other assorted documentation.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026
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
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
The other painters are there, and assorted turtlenecked women, who have begun to appear in long, straight hair, parted in the middle.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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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
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Of this number, those employed in handling money are divided into two forces, under the direction, respectively, of the receiving teller and the assorting teller.
From The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. by Various
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