Sentence examples for acquire a function from inspiring English sources
He believed that such traits were an important part of organismal evolution because they might eventually acquire a function that was necessary for survival in a new environment; "But structures thus indirectly gained, although at first of no advantage to a species, may subsequently have been taken advantage of by its modified descendants, under new conditions of life and newly acquired habits".
Of course, as in the case of the garage full of junk, the majority of junk DNA will never acquire a function.
Gene duplicates are often maintained in the genome because they acquire a function that is distinct from that of the ancestral gene.
Under this view, some genes would have been lost while others happened to acquire a function in the host organism, perhaps ultimately contributing to the successful integration and functioning of the green algal endosymbiont that eventually became the current euglenophyte secondary plastid.
Therefore, extensive research activity is required to distinguish functional species-specific variants from non-functional splicing isoforms originating from neutral drift in the splicing process, taking into account that low-expressed non-functional isoforms provide the raw material for the evolutionary process and may acquire a function later.
This means either that Lax4 acquired a function that implies less functional constraints or that both genes underwent subfunctionalization in such a way that the protein sequence of Lax4 is less constrained.
Upon duplication Isa2 acquired a function as a scaffolding subunit of the complex heteromultimeric Isa1/Isa2 enzyme.
Exaptation describes a process in which a feature acquires a function for which it was not originally adapted or selected.
It is conceivable that the retrogene first acquires a function, either by subfunctionalization [ 22] or neofunctionalization [ 23].
