While gravitropic response of Arabidopsis root organs is their predominant tropic response, specimens treated with mutagens and selected for the absence of gravitropic action showed negative phototropic response to blue or white light, and positive response to red light, indicating the roots also show positive phototropism.

While opera seria deals with gods and ancient heroes and only occasionally contained comic scenes, opera buffa involves the predominant use of comic scenes, characters, and plot lines in a contemporary setting.

While some writers, especially those outside North America, prefer the French-influenced racquet, racket is the predominant spelling by a large margin.

While Triestine was spoken by the largest part of the population, German was the language of the Austrian bureaucracy and Slovene was predominant in the surrounding villages.

While he reasoned that " the seed of Abraham " was hardly predominant in a second generation after conversion to Christianity, he still warned of the " thousands which by the Russian tyranny will now come upon us even more abounding from Poland ", " the impure flood from the East ".

While never displacing other peoples entirely, they became the predominant ethnic group.

While commonly believed to represent Greek settlers in Egypt, the Faiyum portraits instead reflect the complex synthesis of the predominant Egyptian culture and that of the elite Greek minority in the city.

While the Cajun food craze eventually passed, Modern Creole has remained as a predominant force in most major New Orleans restaurants.

While a few sources say Mahesh came from a lower-caste family, the predominant view is that he was a member of the Kayastha caste, a high-status caste whose traditional profession is writing.

While liver production predominates in the fetal and perinatal period, renal production is predominant during adulthood.

While the tradition of turkey at Christmas spread throughout England in the 17th century, among the working classes it became common to serve goose, which remained the predominant roast until the Victorian era.

While the behaviors of nursery groups vary by month, resting is the predominant behavior during most months.

While cumulative habilitations are predominant in some fields ( such as medicine ), they have been, since about a century ago, almost unheard of in others ( such as in law ).

While churches are predominant in religion or society is predominant in economics, the state is predominant in politics.

While farming is the predominant profession among the Mandinka, men also work as tailors, butchers, taxi drivers, woodworkers, metalworkers, soldiers, nurses, and extension workers for aid agencies.

While most East Asian languages use — or had used — the Chinese script, only the Chinese use the characters as the predominant way of naming elements.

While the both the bangdi ( pitched in the same range as western piccolo ) and qudi ( pitched a fourth or fifth lower than the bangdi ) are the most predominant, other dizi include the xiaodi / gaoyindi ( pitched a fourth of fifth higher than the bangdi ), the dadi / diyindi ( pitched a fourth or fifth lower than qudi ), and the deidi / diyindadi ( pitched an octave lower than qudi.

While some new albums are given the treatment, many of these albums were older albums that were released back when records were still the predominant medium.

While muskets were the predominant weapon at the time, the British Army experimented with rifles which though slower to reload and more costly to produce were more accurate and had a longer range of effective fire.

While much of the student housing has traditionally been in the older Victorian terraces, common throughout the area, the new residential buildings developed during the 1990s and early 2000s ( decade ) targeted at the international student market have transformed the once low-rise skyline of Swanston Street, so that its predominant height is about 10-11 storeys.

While the Mam are predominant in the department, other Maya groups are the Q ' anjob ' al, Chuj, Jakaltek, Tektik, Awakatek, Chalchitek, Akatek and K ' iche '.

While Maya culture is predominant in most lakeside communities, the largest town on the shores, Panajachel, has been overwhelmed over the years by tourists.

While small areas of the outback consist of clay soils the majority has exceedingly infertile palaeosols.

While small areas of the outback consist of clay soils the majority has exceedingly infertile palaeosols.

While the coast of BC and certain valleys in the south-central part of the province have mild weather, the majority of BC's land mass experiences a cold winter temperate to subarctic climate similar to the rest of Canada.

While Disraeli's government survived until the December general election, the initiative had passed to the Liberals, who were returned to power with a majority of 170.

While the Danes remained majority shareholders, board members included Philippe Kahn, Tim Berry, John Nash, and David Heller.

While early German tanks, Stuka dive-bombers and concentrated forces were used in the Polish campaign, the majority of the battle was conventional infantry and artillery based warfare and most Luftwaffe action was independent of the ground campaign.

While many engineering fields ( such as mechanical or electrical engineering ) do not need graduate-level training to obtain an entry-level job in their field, the majority of BME positions do prefer or even require them.

While male players are in the majority at club level in the UK, the opposite is the case in Australia and New Zealand.

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 they had the same skin color and religion as the majority, in the Churches, they had to use segregated doors, drink from segregated fonts, receive communion on the end of long wooden spoons.

While these characteristics fit a Monophysite framework, a slight majority of scholars consider that Ignatius was waging a polemic on two distinct fronts, one Jewish, the other docetic, while a distinct minority holds that he is concerned with a group that commingled Judaism and docetism.

While the majority were born in the Gaza Strip, a large percentage identify as Palestinian refugees, fleeing to Gaza as part of the 1948 Palestinian exodus following the Arab-Israeli War.

While the popular vote total was close, with Cleveland winning by just one-quarter of a percent, the electoral votes gave Cleveland a majority of 219 – 182.

While the majority of his films lost money at the box office ( the main reason for Santana's end ), at least two of them are still remembered today ; In a Lonely Place is now recognized as a masterpiece of film noir.

While the SSDD drives initially were the only floppy drives available for the model 5150 PC, IBM later switched to DSDD drives, and the majority of 5150 PCs sold eventually shipped with one or two DSDD drives.

While on the surface it appears the broker represents the buyer ( not the insurance company ), and typically counsels the buyer on appropriate coverage and policy limitations, in the vast majority of cases a broker's compensation comes in the form of a commission as a percentage of the insurance premium, creating a conflict of interest in that the broker's financial interest is tilted towards encouraging an insured to purchase more insurance than might be necessary at a higher price.

While Stalin had promised at the Yalta Conference that free elections would be held in Poland, after an election failure in " 3 times YES " elections, vote rigging was employed to win a majority in the carefully controlled poll.

While Kingston and Montego Bay are home to a number of retail stores, including American fast-food franchises such as Domino's, Burger King, and KFC, the majority of the towns in the interior of the country, such as Mandeville, May Pen, and Spanish Town, have small shops, public markets, and temporary roadside stands.

While listed on the London Stock Exchange and the Singapore Exchange, the vast majority of Jardines shares are traded in Singapore.

While early scholars considered the Testimonium to be a total forgery, the majority of modern scholars consider it partially authentic, despite some clear Christian interpolations in the text.

While he was billed as a supporting actor in the 1978 Battlestar Galactica pilot, a majority of his scenes were cut mainly because those scenes dealt with Serina's ( Jane Seymour ) " space cancer " B-story which had been excised from the final cut.

While there have been some race-related tensions with the local Bantu and Nilotic majority, Indians nonetheless form one of the most prosperous communities in the region.

While the majority of mathematicians are male, there have been some demographic changes since World War II.

While in other nations the customs officials were responsible for most stops, in Mali, gendarmerie ( National paramilitary police ) and the Police force were found creating the majority of bribe extorting roadblocks.

While the vast majority of nurse-midwives work in hospitals, some nurse-midwives and virtually all direct-entry midwives work within the community or home.