Sentence examples for has become modified from inspiring English sources
Although belonging to a family of insect-pollinated plants, the plant has become modified for wind pollination and self-pollination.
Except in some early branches of the vertebrate lineage (i.e., agnathans) a pair of gill arches has become modified so as to form jaws.
In other species, such as the clams, the foot has become modified for rapid and effective digging, and the folds of the mantle tissue have developed into long siphons.
Our in silico, cellular, and molecular approaches demonstrate that the canonical autophagy pathway has become modified in P. falciparum.
Although there are a few known cases in which the binding specificity of a transcription factor has become modified during evolution (Gasch et al. 2004; Kuo et al. 2010; Baker et al. 2011), the observed changes have generally been limited to regulatory elements targeting a small set of genes with highly specific functions.
Primitive bivalves ingest sediment; however, in most species the respiratory gills have become modified into organs of filtration called ctenidia.
Insects feed on every sort of organic matter, and their methods of feeding and digestion have become modified accordingly.
In many hymenopterans (ants, bees, wasps) accessory glands in the female reproductive system have become modified to produce toxic proteins.
Cyclopoid copepods are the most important parasites of marine sponges; in fact, some genera of these crustaceans have become modified as a consequence of their parasitic existence.
In certain beetles (e.g., fireflies and glowworms) parts of the fat body in the female have become modified to form a luminous organ that attracts the male.
