deleterious

How To Use deleterious In A Sentence

• Moreover, scientific studies on choking reveal no deleterious after effects.
• As for carbon dioxide emission - if this does have a deleterious effect, how should we deal with the problem?
• deleterious chemical additives
• All stone and other deleterious material larger than 3 inches shall be buried to a depth of not less than 24 inches or such other depth as may be agreed with the Local Planning Authority.
• Considering data demonstrating extensive human exposure, we think that current environmental levels of Cd could be deleterious to early gametogenesis. Dan Agin: Cadmium Pollution Kills Human Fetal Sex Organ Cells
• Recessive deleterious mutations are a major cause for the phenomenon of inbreeding depression, and diploidy may have evolved to mask the effects of recessive deleterious mutations.
• This reduction in splanchnic blood flow is potentially deleterious in septic shock.
• The deleterious effects of the free radicals are kept under check by a delicate balance between the rate of their production and elimination by the different antioxidant systems.
• The use of untransformed data for multiplicative fitness traits induces positive bias in the estimates of up to 50% for the ratio estimate when there are many segregating deleterious mutations per individual.
• Thus the ratio of the proportions of deleterious mutations and nonsynonymous sites to that at synonymous sites is 6.6: 1.