Natural large molecular compound, chitosan (CTS) with many functional amino and hydroxyl groups can be easily modified to enhance its original functions.
Dubbed as neofunctionalization, one of the two duplicated genes can be released from functional constraint and acquire new functions, whereas the other gene performs the original functions (Innan and Kondrashov 2010).
Google's original functions were less intimate than Facebook's.
Soon, another of the original functions of working men's clubs might be surrendered.
In the transition from water to land, the researchers said, the hyomandibula gradually lost its original functions and, in time, gained a role in hearing.
The Secret Service does more than just guard the president and visiting dignitaries; those were not even its original functions.
Chips and even missing statue limbs and heads are evident in the Bard Center galleries, and the original functions of some objects are still being researched.
Writing about the practice in 1978, Karen Paige suggested that, "When a custom persists after its original functions have died, it may be accorded the status of a ritual".
The hilly old town has evocatively named streets that still fulfil their original functions: you can buy oysters on Calle de las Ostras, hats on Sombrereiros and baskets on Cesteiros.
Yet such signs also act as historical cues by reminding us of their original functions, often prompting us to think about obscure aspects of social or cultural history that might otherwise be forgotten.
I am not a doctor or a butcher so it's often hard to identify precisely what these internal organs are, now estranged from their original functions and recast as aesthetic objects.
