Sentence examples for originally adapted for from inspiring English sources

However, many traits that appear to be simple adaptations are in fact exaptations: structures originally adapted for one function, but which coincidentally became somewhat useful for some other function in the process.

Crisphead – Better known as "iceberg" lettuce, the most popular lettuce in the US, this type is very heat-sensitive and was originally adapted for growth in the northern US.

Aquatic life poses numerous challenges for mammals that were originally adapted for life on land [ 2].

In the case of rafting, the step size may be a behavior originally adapted for moving on land.

The evolutionary transition to mouthbrooding offers an excellent opportunity to test the functional coupling hypothesis because mouthbrooding introduces a novel function to the cranium, which is originally adapted for feeding.

Remarkably, none of the variants we observed correspond to the variants described in an earlier study, in which a PR8 strain (originally adapted for growth on embryonated chicken eggs) was adapted for growth on MDCK cells [ 78].

Introducing Hygge: "Hygge" (pronounced hoo-guh) is a Danish concept, originally adapted from the Norwegian word for wellbeing.

Another deviation from standard protocol was the substitution with NuGEN Ovation PicoSL WTA V2 kit for Gene1.0 arrays which was originally adapted in the lab for cost considerations and was subsequently expanded to applications with partially degraded RNAs and/or low mass.

The adventurous can hire the Boma 7 off-road wheelchair for an alternative way to explore the area from £50 a day Bungalow with free use of beach wheelchair Originally adapted by the owners for their son, who has cerebral palsy, this bungalow on the slopes of Rhossili Downs sleeps nine, and is perfect for exploring the Gower (which offers many wheelchair accessible walks).

Class I aaRSs were originally adapted to aminoacylate tRNA, for the most part with the "large" biosynthetically complex amino acids.

Exaptation describes a process in which a feature acquires a function for which it was not originally adapted or selected.