Example sentences for: functional

How can you use “functional” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • We define cerebral vascular reactivity as the functional CBF response to a stimulus minus the resting CBF (ΔCBF react ) while the maximal response to acetazolamide challenge provides an index of the cerebrovascular capacity.

  • Initial surveys of natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster showing that TE insertion alleles are in uniformly low frequency seemed to negate the adaptive hypothesis [ 6 ] . However, the sporadic discovery of degenerate TEs or TE fragments as critical components of functional genes in both plants and animals was sufficient to keep the adaptive hypothesis alive throughout the pre-genomic era [ 7 8 9 10 11 ] .

  • Buchnera is a mutualistic endosymbiont of its host, but the pattern of reductions of numbers of genes among functional categories is similar between Buchnera and other fully sequenced small-genome bacteria, all obligate pathogens [ 8, 12, 15, 16].

  • It is becoming increasingly evident that BMP signaling is regulated not only by the spatiotemporal expression of BMP ligands and receptors, but also by relative levels of soluble BMP antagonists, which directly bind BMPs and prevent functional receptor/ligand interaction [ 1 24 25 26 27 28 ] . The different BMP antagonists bind to BMPs and other TGF-β family members with varying degrees of specificity.

  • They form functional modules nevertheless.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast