5 sentences with “strains”

"What we do is isolate and combine microbial strains, modifying their numbers to optimise the decomposition work they do.

The tiny house was cheerful, often filled with friends helping to prepare meals and wash dishes to the strains of Mahler's music.

The crop grown in the South was a hybrid: Gossypium barbadense, known as Petit Gulf cotton, a mixture of Mexican, Georgia and Siamese strains.

Because it has an enormous capacity for genetic mutation, HIV adapts perfectly. Its genetic code changes up to a million times faster than that of cells. It is never the same, hundreds of strains have been isolated so far, and there can even be more than one kind in one person.

Because almost all diseases affecting humans are mutated strains of diseases affecting domestic animals, called zoonotic diseases, and all large animal species that can be domesticated were of Eurasian origin except llamas, Eurasians and Africans had spent thousands of years suffering from and developing resistance to epidemics, while Native Americans had not.