Sentences with phrase «characteristic shapes of each leaf»

The zigzag edges of leaves, so - called leaf teeth, are important for making the characteristic shapes of each leaf.

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The signal from a disc - shaped leaf remained strong and characteristic no matter where the loudspeaker - microphone was placed within an 80 - degree arc in front of the leaf.

Historically, scientists used physical characteristics, like the shapes of the leaves or similarities in life cycles, but in the DNA age, the most common characteristics are sequence - based.

It is complicated because «within a single species, leaves can have quite diverse shapes, while leaves from different species are sometimes quite similar, so one of the main technical challenges in using leaves to identify plant species has been to find effective representations of their shape, which capture their most important characteristics.»