Sentence examples for become nonfunctional from inspiring English sources

Upside: I like to cook, and whatever monitor I had that signals "full" has become nonfunctional once I finally sit down with a hot bowl, or two, of something at home often too late in the evening.

It is not unusual for these elements to eventually corrode and become nonfunctional.

The gallbladder may enlarge and become nonfunctional, containing muddy bile (3 ).

In most human somatic cells, there is insufficient telomerase to maintain telomere length indefinitely through cell divisions, and consequently, telomeres shorten and ultimately become nonfunctional.

We reasoned that some proteins may not be able to evolve higher stability, and thus would become nonfunctional (or even toxic) at high temperatures.

Alternatively, it is possible that PEP has become nonfunctional in P. x hortorum, as observed in the holoparasite Phelipanche aegyptiaca[ 20].

The net result is that the gene becomes nonfunctional and is effectively silenced.

Dr. Shapiro admits that when his wife was found to have breast cancer, he became "nonfunctional, terrified that she might die and fearing I'd have to raise the two girls by myself".

Despite accurate positioning, the ventriculostomy thrombosed and became nonfunctional.

Using phylogenetic analyses that examine the evolutionary relationships between species that have this family of genes and those that do not, it is possible to determine when in our evolutionary history the genes became nonfunctional.

Both lines of evidence suggest that the VNO became nonfunctional at the same time in primate evolution that trichromatic color vision evolved via a gene duplication of the green/red opsin gene (Liman and Innan 2003).