Incorporation of an unpreferred codon is unlikely to be functionally equivalent to a complete loss of function.
Based on these criteria, we suggest that rice OSK1 and OSK20 are likely to be functionally equivalent to Arabidopsis ASK1 and ASK2 genes, and we propose functional orthologues for 15 other plants (Supplementary Table S4).
Medicare administrators, for instance, declared Amgen's new anemia drug, Aranesp, to be "functionally equivalent" to the older drug Procrit and therefore not eligible for extra reimbursement.
For a total of $56m, the group will get something that will be functionally equivalent to, or even better than, an existing satellite that cost $300m.A European Union group is looking at a similar approach, using nine low-cost satellites.
It was based on the assumption that, in this fictional world, the Colonials had merged theories of electromagnetism and gravity, such that if you could create a very intense electromagnetic field, it would be functionally equivalent to an intense gravitational field capable of warping spacetime.
In particular, the plaintiffs point to certain forms of contraception that they believe to be "functionally equivalent to abortion on demand".
Such claims are sometimes supported by appeal to the supposed possibility of absent or inverted qualia, i.e., the possibility of beings who are functionally equivalent to normal humans but who have reversed qualia or none at all.
Next, we proved that the identified ZF kcnj10a is appropriately expressed, encodes a functional potassium channel and that this channel is functionally equivalent to human KCNJ10.
Functional complementation studies will determine whether CgZF1 and AgZF1 are functionally equivalent to putative orthologous genes identified in legumes.
Together, these functional characterization experiments suggest that neocentromeres in DT40 cells are functionally equivalent to endogenous centromeres.
