natural resistance
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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As is the case with Covid, vulnerable people can vaccinate to build their body’s natural resistance to the virus.
From Barron's
"Identifying and deploying natural resistance from wild bananas is a long-term and sustainable solution to this pathogen that wilts and kills the host plant leaving residue in the soil to infect future crops," Dr. Chen explained.
From Science Daily
This approach allowed the researchers to examine how different levels of natural resistance within the plants could be linked to their mineral compositions.
From Science Daily
Native people had little natural resistance, or immunity, to these new diseases.
From Literature
The introduction of the aggressive and non-native North American signal crayfish has brought diseases that the indigenous crayfish have no natural resistance to, and their natural habitat of freshwater rivers and streams have become more polluted in recent years.
From BBC
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