Sentence examples for old functions from inspiring English sources

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

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

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

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

Although the British state has taken on many of the old functions of the religious establishment – it makes rules on sexuality, morality, gender, reproduction, marriage, children, free expression and diet, and is chief patron of the arts and sciences – it is the universal networks that the state is most closely identified with.

But the Education Act 2011 placed the duty in England directly on schools, which were instructed to provide independent, impartial advice to pupils over three years from 13. Connexions was cut back to become solely a phone and online service but there was no new money to replace its old functions, a gap that one witness told the committee cost each school about £25,000.

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 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.