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
Others are on the same chromosome, but are so far apart that they also assort independently.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2018
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
Still, it is difficult always to assort your company to your satisfaction and theirs.
From The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book by Eliza Leslie
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
The crowd assorts itself as the people do who line the barriers at a bull-fight: those who have parasols, to the shadow; those who have barely a hat, to the sun.
From The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories by Mary Hallock Foote
She assorts and arranges her goods by the law of the winds and the tides.
From Time and Change by John Burroughs
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
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
Each of the five models is offered in assorted colors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 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
In the early spring of 1837, Gould told Darwin that the assorted varieties of wrens, warblers, blackbirds, and “Gross-beaks” that Darwin had sent him were not assorted or various at all.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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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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Then she forgot her reflections, for a little way beyond the falls, assorting something from a basket, was the object of her visit, Constance Deane.
From The Lucky Piece A Tale of the North Woods by Albert Bigelow Paine