Sentences with phrase «tiny size relative»

Despite the country's tiny size relative to its neighbours, Ecuador has some of the globe's most varied landscapes and an impressive bio-diversity, which is nowhere more evident than in the spectacular Galapagos Islands.

Not exact matches

The pseudogene is less than half the size of its relative and yields only a tiny snippet of RNA that can't produce a protein.

These were dogs of varying sizes from the tiny Yorkshire (originally a mouser) and Norfolk, to the medium Lakeland, the ancestor to the American Staffordshire Terrier (close relative to the American Pit Bull Terrier), to the giant Airedale.

Tides follow an inverse cube law (to a first approximation for systems experiencing tides due to masses relatively far away compared to the system's size; for systems that are not small relative to the distance to the object producing the tidal acceleration, I think it's more complicated), and so the inner planets gain in importance relative to the outer planets, although mass is still important (and nonetheless, tides raised on the Sun by the planets are so tiny it's hard to imagine they could be of any such significance).