functional region

collocation in English

meaningsoffunctionalandregion

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functional
adjective
uk
/ˈfʌŋk.ʃən.əl/us
/ˈfʌŋk.ʃən.əl/
designed to be practical and useful rather ...
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region
noun[C]
uk
/ˈriː.dʒən/us
/ˈriː.dʒən/
a particular area or part of the world, or any of the large official areas into which a country ...
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(Definition offunctionalandregionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Phylogenetic shadowing of primate sequences to find functional regions of the human genome.
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However, as specialization proceeds, there will be an increasing need to integrate information between specialized functional regions.
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Other meta-analyses provide converging functional regions, although their precise functional anatomy remains a partly open question.
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It is an important tool in functional brain mapping and facilitates the visualization of the functional regions of the highly folded cerebral cortex.
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The motor cortex is located in the posterior frontal lobe, and has multiple areas with anatomical and functional regions.
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This approach provides an effective tool for the high-throughput identification of the functional regions involved in epigenetic regulation.
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The functional regions of the protein, especially its active site, tend to be more highly conserved and thus more accurately modeled.
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Different strategies for selecting groups of sequences can be used to identify functional regions and specificity determinants in gene families.
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The parietal lobes can be divided into two functional regions.
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Phylogenetic shadowing of primate sequences to find functional regions of the human genome.
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