Sentence examples for took on a new function from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, as the continuo principle gradually approached obsolescence, the harpsichord (which was superseded by the piano about 1770) took on a new function in chamber music.

A feature that had become vestigial2 in terms of its original function takes on a new function in its reduced state.

Four, as per Ohno's (1970) discussion, one copy may take on a new function while the other fulfills the previous function ("neofunctionalization").

Some say positive selection favors duplicated genes that take on a new function.

The idea is that when genes are accidentally copied twice, the "extra" copies can take on a new function, for instance by turning on at a different time in development or in a different tissue.

Curiosities have taken on a new significance.

But it has taken on a new urgency.

Thus it is likely that AaKLC2 genes are the paralogs that took on a new expression profile and possibly a new function in Culicinae.

Stripped of function, mounted on pedestals, these sculptures, censers, portable altars and rosary beads took on a new incarnation as things to be looked at.

Mongolia itself took on a new shape.

Now Section 2040 took on a new flavor.