Sentence examples for evolve to absorb from inspiring English sources

"The ancient rituals are supposed to change and evolve to absorb new needs," Professor Long said.

"It's not as if old rituals are evolving to absorb new needs," he said.

The antenna of the photosynthetic system has evolved to absorb sufficient sunlight and effectively concentrate the collected energy in the reaction center.

Dylan's lyrics took on new meaning as a confident Kesha looked straight into the camera, words evolving over time to absorb current circumstances and emotions.

Put another way, "In the fifteen hundred years since the Romans left Britain, English has shown a unique ability to absorb, evolve, invade, and, if we're honest, steal".

Hailing from the wilds of Latin America, plants in the genus Tillandsia have evolved the remarkable ability to absorb all the water and nutrients they need from the air.

It is quite possible that nocturnal, free-ranging bats that have no known dietary source of vitamin D have evolved to also absorb intestinal calcium independent of vitamin D. Indeed, Keegan et al. found that the small intestine of R. aegyptiacus was freely permeable to calcium in both directions indicating a vitamin D-independent process.

These results suggest that the efficient excited state quenching may be an evolved property of the protein fold that allows it to absorb ultraviolet light with minimal damage from associated photochemical covalent ring scission reactions.

Rice has therefore evolved the unusual ability amongst other Strategy II plant species to absorb Fe2+ via OsIRT transporters in a manner similar to Strategy I plant species (Bughio et al. 2002; Ishimaru et al. 2006).

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Human beings and plants have co-evolved for millions of years, so it makes perfect sense that our complex bodies would be adapted to absorb needed, beneficial compounds from complex plants and ignore the rest.