Sentence examples for adapted to function from inspiring English sources

Thus acclimatization does not invariably mean that a plant or animal is adapted to function at its maximum rate.

The leaves are clearly adapted to function like flowers in attracting insects: they are flowerlike in their striking colour patterns and shapes, and, during their active period in the summer, they exude nectar containing fructose, which is highly attractive to some insects.

ADPRTs have become adapted to function in extra- and intracellular settings.

This proof of concept that laccases can be adapted to function in extreme conditions opens an array of opportunities for implantable nanobiodevices, chemical syntheses, and detoxification.

These findings suggest that adaptation of hunting appendages goes beyond their macroscopic morphology, and that multi-scale structural design concomitantly adapted to function, with enhanced structural complexification for tools that are subjected to more intense contact stresses.

The conceptual model described by these authors is that every form of native vegetation would naturally be adapted to function within the hydrological cycle of the land (within their surface and groundwater processes) and that human intervention on this native vegetation would negatively impact the hydrological cycle.

Nevertheless, it is possible that other species that navigate exclusively during the day, such as the homing pigeon, have evolved a light-dependent magnetic compass sensitivity, which is adapted to functioning well during the day.

Each paralogous gene was able to evolve through mutations and adapt to function in a novel environmental space.

These examples demonstrate that both simple and complex regulations can adapt to function of metabolic pathways, either specific or extensive.

If cells from an elderly individual have less ATP production then presumably they must either be able to adapt to function with less ATP or they may produce more energy through non-oxidative metabolism [72].

In the common ancestor of animals and fungi, Cdc14 may have adapted to a function in mitosis in addition to its role in the flagellated stage.