"tolerance" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- That lactose tolerance has evolved independently four times is an instance of convergent evolution.
- Natural selection has used the different mutations available in European and East African populations to make each develop lactose tolerance.
- Mutations in these regions are associated with lactose tolerance into adult life.
- They developed lactose tolerance, the unusual ability to digest lactose in adulthood.
- In most mammals, the gene for lactose tolerance switches off once an animal matures beyond the weaning years.
- The genes of adult lactose tolerance have evolved independently in various ethnic groups.
- Eating yogurt with live bacterial cultures seems to improve lactose tolerance in children and adults who cannot absorb lactose.
- Another locus of lactose tolerance is in Northern India.
- The appearance of lactose tolerance in human populations with a long tradition of raising domesticated animals for milk production has been suggested as another example.
- One of the genes, which arose among Europe's first cattle herders 5,000 years ago, enables people to drink milk in adulthood, an ability known as lactose tolerance.
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