Use "morphological" in a sentence

1. Thus the morphological argument, as Berlinski uses Alfred Wallace’s “objection to his own thesis concerning evolution, the differences that troubled him,” In an attempt to leave the impression; “that there was confusion within the scientific community regarding the reliability of this [very beginning] understanding, of the premise underlying the almost concurrent theory of evolution as propounded by Darwin

2. Yet despite these morphological differences, their collective efficiency was extraordinary

3. / The concern of the author of Historical Poetics with the components of the literary work – with artistic devices and their clusters, literary genres, or, as he put it himself, with the peculiar “media which poetry has at its disposal”, was a long step toward the morphological analysis which was to become the watchword of twentieth-century poetics

4. He admits that natural selection has effected much, but he insists that the families of plants differ chiefly from each other in morphological characters, which appear to be quite unimportant for the welfare of the species

5. With respect to plants, to which on account of Nageli's essay I shall confine myself in the following remarks, it will be admitted that the flowers of the orchids present a multitude of curious structures, which a few years ago would have been considered as mere morphological differences without any special function; but they are now known to be of the highest importance for the fertilisation of the species through the aid of insects, and have probably been gained through natural selection

6. These positions seem at first purely morphological, or of no physiological signification; but Dr

7. The manner in which the petals are folded in the bud is in most groups a very constant morphological character; but Professor Asa Gray states that with some species of Mimulus, the aestivation is almost as frequently that of the Rhinanthideae as of the Antirrhinideae, to which latter tribe the genus belongs

8. We thus see that with plants many morphological changes may be attributed to the laws of growth and the inter-action of parts, independently of natural selection

9. Thus, as I am inclined to believe, morphological differences, which we consider as important—such as the arrangement of the leaves, the divisions of the flower or of the ovarium, the position of the ovules, etc

10. , first appeared in many cases as fluctuating variations, which sooner or later became constant through the nature of the organism and of the surrounding conditions, as well as through the intercrossing of distinct individuals, but not through natural selection; for as these morphological characters do not affect the welfare of the species, any slight deviations in them could not have been governed or accumulated through this latter agency

11. " With plants how remarkable it is that the organs of vegetation, on which their nutrition and life depend, are of little signification; whereas the organs of reproduction, with their product the seed and embryo, are of paramount importance! So again, in formerly discussing certain morphological characters which are not functionally important, we have seen that they are often of the highest service in classification