While a spontaneous or induced genetic mutation in bacteria may confer resistance to antimicrobial drugs, genes that confer resistance can be transferred between bacteria in a horizontal fashion by conjugation, transduction, or transformation.

While all prokaryotes reproduce asexually ( without the formation and fusion of gametes ), mechanisms for lateral gene transfer such as conjugation, transformation and transduction are sometimes likened to sexual reproduction.

While both varieties of neuromasts utilize this method of transduction, the specialized organization of superficial and canal neuromasts allow them different mechanoreceptive capacities.

While there is evidence that the dopamine system is involved in schizophrenia, the theory that hyperactive dopaminergic signal transduction induces the disease is controversial.

While the vocalization-induced stapedius reflex in humans results in about a 20 dB reduction in transduction to the inner ear, birds have a stronger stapedius reflex that is invoked just before the bird tweets.

While subsequently head of the Instrumentation Lab at the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works, Winterthur, he pioneered a new measurement technology using Piezo-electric quartz crystals as the transduction element in accelerometers, load cells, and pressure gauges.

While the budget consists of limited amount of donations and business operations owned by the party, its majority comes from the grant of national treasury, the same way that supports the other 8 subordinative registered parties, which making a bizarre exception among modern political parties.

While not rigorous, the empirical evidence to date supports this belief ".

While the standard argument for utilizing a modern text supports distillation of information into a form relevant to modern society, perennialists argue that many of the historical debates and the development of ideas presented by the great books are relevant to any society, at any time, and thus that the suitability of the great books for instructional use is unaffected by their age.

While there is a large body of theology noting the many Scriptural supports for transubstantiation, in general, Orthodox and Catholics consider it unnecessary to " prove " from texts of Scripture a belief that they see as held by Christians without interruption from the earliest, apostolic times.

* While RIPv2 supports RIPv1 updates authentication, RIPng does not.

While deployed DOCSIS RFI 1. 0 equipment generally only supports best efforts service, the DOCSIS RFI 1. 0 Interim-01 document discussed QoS extensions and mechanisms using IntServ, RSVP, RTP, and Synchronous Transfer Mode ( STM ) telephony ( as opposed to ATM ).

While problems exist in FrameMaker's XML implementation, the application supports authoring in an XML-based workflow.

While RFC 2136 supports all DNS record types ( including zone and user ), it is most commonly used for dynamic hosts.

While the Catalina Foothills community supports a population exceeding 50, 000, most of the neighborhoods maintain a low-density and suburban character.

While the tracks were removed and sold as scrap, there are still signs of the railroad where the old concrete supports crossed the Buffalo River.

While the rsync algorithm forms the heart of the rsync application that essentially optimizes transfers between two computers over TCP / IP, the rsync application supports other key features that aid significantly in data transfers or backup.

While NTP ( depending on what version of NTP protocol in use ) supports up to 256 strata, only the first 16 are employed and any device at Stratum 16 is considered to be unsynchronized.

While " community center " is a term used to describe any center of " public " activity, occasionally sanctioned by the state or private interests such as a corporation, social centers are characterized by their quasi-legal and sometimes illegal existence, their direct subsistence on the community that supports it and their political vision vis-a-vis the state.

While it does not make a firm political stance, it is most closely related to libertarian socialism ( given that it supports the abolition of money and property ).

While Friedman supports the elimination of coal-based power, he believes improving coal technology is necessary in the short term.

While LFS is limited to the x86 architecture, CLFS supports a broader range of processors.

While it is sometimes described as centre-right in the context of Quebec politics, the party believes in a strong role for government in the economy and supports socially liberal policies.

While birds and most reptiles have a ring of bones around each eye which supports the eyeball ( the sclerotic ring ), the crocodilians lack these bones, just like mammals and snakes.

While Dr. Bashir supports providing the Founders with a cure, others are unconvinced.

While Bashir supports offering a cure to the Founders, Sisko determines that the disease should be left to continue crippling the powerful opposition.

While the confrontation between the two sets of supporters was often labelled as ' Sectarianism ', ' Native-Immigrant tension ' was an equally accurate catalyst for hostility between the two teams ' supports in Scotland.

While not all VCL components are thread-safe, VCL supports multi-threading too.

While initially available only for Macs with a SuperDrive, it was included until 2011 with all new Macs ; from iDVD 6 onwards, Apple supports the ability to burn projects with third-party optical drives.

While insei, many people live with their professional sponsor, who tutors and supports them.

While they do sometimes live solitarily, they are more commonly found in groups that average 10 – 20 individuals, with two to four adult males, four to seven adult females and the rest juveniles.

While the rate of cure declines the longer an adult has been infected with Chagas, treatment with benznidazole has been shown to slow the onset of heart disease in adults with chronic Chagas infections.

While some Bible scholars suggest the size and habits of the great white shark correspond better to the representations given of Jonah's being swallowed, normally an adult human is too large to be swallowed whole.

While the storylines and production were remembered by children, the adult jokes like those about the Welsh in " Ivor the Engine ," or the fact that the Clangers swore occasionally ; gave them both an instant parent engagement as well as a later revival with children who had grown up and were re-watching their favourite programmes.

While Lindgren almost immediately became a much appreciated writer, the irreverent attitude towards adult authority that is a distinguishing characteristic of many of her characters has occasionally drawn the ire of some conservatives.

While the CBS prime-time lineup featured music, comedy and variety shows, the daytime schedule was a direct conduit into American homes — and into the hearts and minds of American women ; for many, it was the bulk of their adult human contact during the course of the day.

While still on active duty, the Admiral had suggested that there are three things that a school must do: First, it must transmit to the pupil a substantial body of knowledge ; second, it must develop in him the necessary intellectual skill to apply this knowledge to the problems he will encounter in adult life ; and third, it must inculcate in him the habit of judging issues on the basis of verified fact and logical reasoning.

While many adult cases in the medical literature are associated with mental disorders, most patients with habit polydipsia have no other detectable disease.

While young and elderly participants equally could tell the difference for smiling young people, the " older adult participants outperformed young adult participants in distinguishing between posed and spontaneous smiles ".

While there are no biological or mechanical vectors for the adult or larval form of any Echinococcus species, coprophagic flies, carrion birds and arthropods can act as mechanical vectors for the eggs .< ref >" Echinococcus granulosus-Material Safety Data Sheets ( MSDS ).

While wargames were always what Avalon Hill was best known for, Roberts had founded it as a company for adult, ( that is, thinking ) games.

While the adult human skull is about 1 / 8 of the total body length, the newborn's is about 1 / 4.

While the initial cartoon of an adult black bear lassoed by a handler and a disgusted Roosevelt had symbolic overtones, later issues of that and other Berryman cartoons made the bear smaller and cuter.

While the eagles generally seem to prefer flying lemurs where available, most other animals found in the Philippines, short of adult ungulates and humans, may be taken as prey.

While tadpoles control algal populations, adult frogs forage on insects.

While the vast majority of the patent application dealt with male sperm, one line suggested that the procedure would work with XX cells, i. e., cells from an adult woman to make female sperm.

While the Wars of the Roses effectively ended at Tewkesbury in 1471, Richard III's alleged murder of the Princes in the Tower, coupled with his invalidation by Act of Parliament, subsequently repealed, of the marriage of Edward IV to Elizabeth Woodville caused the English people to rally behind the last reasonably legitimate British adult male descendant of Edward III, Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond.

While Janus is a bearded adult Culśans may be an unbearded youth, making his identification with Hermes look possible.

While the Weyrwoman and the Weyrleader hold the same rank as a Lord or Lady Holder or Mastercraftsmen, even the lowest ranked adult dragonrider is equivalent to a senior journeyman in a craft, and are given the respect due any dragonrider as the protectors of Pern.

While most commonly marketed as a children's toy, the action figure has gained wide acceptance as an adult collector item.

While the adult dogs attack the two men, Colonel and Tibbs guide the puppies from the house.

" While Brooks maintained that Holden acts his age, Menand claimed that Holden thinks as an adult, given his ability to accurately perceive people and their motives such as when Phoebe states that she will go out west with Holden, and he immediately rejects this idea as ridiculous, much to Phoebe's disappointment.