Sentence examples for functioning as a substitute from inspiring English sources

Here, the trait seems to signal genetic similarity, functioning as a substitute for actual genetic relatedness (Sinervo and Clobert 2003).

One most relevant example [8] revealed that the well-characterized clotting cascade of the horseshoe crab Tachypleus tridentatus is linked to the activation of the nonself-recognizing cascade, prophenoloxidase system, with the oxygen carrier hemocyanin functioning as a substitute for prophenol oxidase.

For decades of Christmases, it had been a gratifying way to function as a substitute Santa Claus.

Having a beard functioned as a substitute for hormone replacement therapy.

Other countries were expected to have difficulty from time to time in stabilizing their exchange rates and would need assistance in the form of credits from the IMF, but the dollar was expected to remain stable enough to function as a substitute for gold in international transactions.

The case of Belding's ground squirrels illustrates how locality may function as a substitute when kin tend to inhabit the same area.

These approaches mainly included bioretention (which captured nearly 85th percentile volume of the annual runoff in the site, nearly 5.4 × 105 m3 annually), swales (which functioned as a substitute for traditional stormwater pipes), waterscapes, and stormwater wetlands.

This might have something to do with the blank negationism of the movement opposing austerity has come to function as a substitute for actually doing anything about it.

These results raise the intriguing possibility that this non-invasive stimulus could function as a substitute for small molecule A2AR antagonists under development as PD drugs.

This should function as a substitute bow string.

They function as a metallic substitute for structural bone graft during revision surgery.