Sentence examples for old function from inspiring English sources

Most paralogs are lost after few million years, but those which either gain a new function ("neo-functionalization") or cover old function ("sub-functionalization") survive.

Agent Kay has been living among aliens for years; the shock restores him to his old function.

This latter condition allows any old function of likeness to count.

More research is needed to show not only how the amino acid changes reduced the ribonuclease's old function, but also how they helped it reach its new function.

In the first event one of the copies of a heat shock protein (copy 1) retained its plesiomorphic function (protection against damage) and plesiomorphic location (throughout the body), while the other (copy 2) added a change in function (focusing light) to the old function of protection from degradation in the plesiomorphic location.

In order for it to be evolutionarily relevant, that material, be it an old gene with an old function in a different place or an old gene with a new function, will ultimately have to pass through the filter of selection acting on the phenotype.

Mutation and selection can result in functional changes introducing a new function or specialization of old functions [ 38, 39].

She interrupts their old functions and gives them new ones; she reorganizes actual randomness into tightly choreographed versions of randomness.

Mr. Nielsen suggests subtle redesigns and encourages companies to explain how to perform old functions on the new site.

The new concept may involve the introduction of new functions or the realization of old functions in new ways.

"This is not Williamsburg, Va., where we're maintaining old functions as a tourist attraction".