Example sentences for: deleterious

How can you use “deleterious” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Although adaptation by natural selection depends on occasional beneficial mutations, in fact most mutations are neutral or deleterious.

  • . Antagonistic epistasis therefore implies unexpected robustness to the effects of multiple deleterious mutations [ 2 ] .

  • Some provocative clues from this first analysis suggest that some as yet unidentified correlate of oral contraceptive use might be protective and that consuming two or more alcoholic drinks per day might be deleterious for women in this high-incidence population.

  • The vast majority of genes in every genome are selectively constrained, in that most nucleotide changes that alter the fitness of the organism are deleterious.

  • On the other hand, our method is insensitive to bias and heteroscedasticity, both of which have a significant deleterious effect on the naive method.


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