Sentence examples for a defensive function from inspiring English sources

The Department of Homeland Security – an agency far better prepared to defend against threats – might be a better home for such a defensive function.

The delicately coloured body has bizarre outgrowths, called cerata, which serve a defensive function, discharging nematocysts that the nudibranch has ingested from cnidarian prey.

It has been suggested that a defensive function may have been linked with Ponter's Ball Dyke, a linear earthwork about 1 km east of the Tor.

The city's core was bordered on the north side by a 6 m high wall that controlled access from the north and may also have had a defensive function.

Thus, they might also have a defensive function in plant-insect interactions.

The imaginal frontal gland secretion of Prorhinotermes spp. consists of toxic and irritant compounds and thus likely fulfils a defensive function as in soldiers [20].

I skirt behind it to avoid what looks like a bull; two millennia on, the wall is still serving a useful defensive function.

The marginal markings on Sophogramma lii likely had a similar defensive function, misleading predators to attack the wing margin instead of vital, axially located body parts.

In addition to their roles in regulating endogenous metabolites, SULTs provide a critical defensive function; they detoxify compounds, particularly xenobiotics, by preventing them from binding adventitiously to receptors and target them for degradation and elimination.

These range from a ubiquitous involvement in cellular signal transduction and regulation in all eukaryotic cells (Lee et al. 2007; Nagy et al. 2009) at low concentrations to a possible, defensive function against insect herbivores in some plant species (Green et al. 2001).

The tree topology is consistent with cv-lysozyme 3 and its C. gigas ortholog representing a preserved transitional form between the ancestral defensive function within C. viriginica and a derived digestive one.