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Likewise, analysis of their genomic organization revealed that the caenorhabditis, drosophila and human CCR4 genes had several introns in common, located at homologous positions, suggesting that they arose from a common ancestor.
The Russian NKVD was the 1930s ancestor of the KGB.
In 2004, Dr. Anunciada Colon presided over the opening of a golden trunk from the 16th century, containing ashes and bone fragments presumed to belong to her ancestor Christopher Columbus, an event chronicled by a television crew.
The rehabilitation of Strom and Jesse is Washington politesse of the worst sort, a twisted Inside-the-Beltway version of ancestor worship.
This protein and its orthologs (direct evolutionary counterparts related by vertical descent from a common ancestor) from the bacteria Thermotoga maritima and Deinococcus radiodurans were identified as 'distant orthologs' of the Bacillus subtilis CysRS by using a computational method specifically designed to detect distantly related orthologs [ 18].