Example sentences for: ancestry

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  • Old World Seriphidium species being equivocal [ 34 35 ] . The current ITS phylogeny suggests that the closest relatives of Tridentatae lie among the New World species of Artemisia , in agreement with McArthur and Plummer [ 20 ] , perhaps sharing a common ancestry with A. filifolia and A. californica , in addition to Sphaeromeria , although monophyly for this subclade is unsupported by the ITS data.

  • This culture-nature split corresponds, in Walcott's personal mythology, with a split in himself: his European education and Caribbean childhood; his two homes, in Boston and St. Lucia; the two races, white and black, of his ancestry; and "the two languages I know--one so rich/ in its imperial intimacies, its echo of privilege,/ the other like the orange words of a hillside in drought--/ but my love of both wide as the Atlantic is large."

  • Genome content trees have been calculated based on the presence and absence of genes [ 14 15 16 ] or types of protein folds [ 17 ] . While there is limited agreement between genome and rRNA phylogeny, at present it remains unclear whether this similarity is based on shared ancestry of part of a less frequently exchanging genome core [ 18 ] , or if the apparent congruence is itself the result of horizontal gene transfer [ 19 ] .

  • In Eckler's paper on Single-Letter Surnames we learn that all letters exist as a surname (and are overwhelmingly likely to be held by people of Oriental ancestry, p. 264), and only Q is missing.

  • The ancestry of different Tlr4 alleles can be traced by haplotype analysis, as many deviations from the reference allele occur in conjunction with one another.


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