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Meanings of phenotypic responsiveness in English

Russian
экологическая пластичность
Portuguese
plasticidade fenotípica
Spanish
plasticidad fenotipica
Catalan
plasticitat fenotípica

The ability of an organism to change its phenotype in response to the environment.

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экологическая пластичность
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Examples for "flexibility"
Examples for "flexibility"
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The plan involves creating greater employment opportunities and more labour market flexibility.
The Irish Times
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However,the company has some flexibility to defer capital expenditure separately whendeclining demand.
Reuters
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Obama said he believed China's pledge of greater currency flexibility is serious.
Reuters
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The healthcare and construction sectors in particular needed more flexibility, he said.
Reuters
5
The company said the deal allowed Activision to operate with more flexibility.
Reuters
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Animals, including humans, can adapt to environmental stress through phenotypic plasticity.
Pubmed
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These results support the inference that grasshoppers exhibit adaptive phenotypic plasticity.
Pubmed
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Thus, phenotypic plasticity among resprouters is the general strategy for surviving varying fire regimes.
Pubmed
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Two such processes are phenotypic plasticity and sexual selection.
Pubmed
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Learning is an important form of phenotypic plasticity that allows organisms to adjust their behaviour to the environment.
Pubmed