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Times staff's cultlike attachment to Otis Chandler--the former publisher and descendant of the paper's founding family, who last week wrote a letter supporting the staff revolt--seems typical of this ineffectuality.
For some of the other transduced sequences, in lieu of a polyadenylation signal, the pairwise alignment between the presumed progenitor element plus its downstream sequence and a descendant L1-TD ended in poly(A) or a related A-rich sequence.
In the Paris evening paper France-Soir , a direct descendant of Jules Verne, of Around the World in 80 Days fame, complained about people saying that the author's dream had finally been realized.
The New Cassell's French Dictionary defines enfant in English as: “Child, infant, baby; son or daughter; descendant; citizen, native; ( Law ) offspring, issue.”
The ancestral versions of these domains would not have the adaptations for specific roles possessed by their descendant forms, such as those in extant DDRP or RDRP, and probably functioned as generic RNA-binding and protein-protein interaction domains, with the specificity conferred by catalytic RNA molecules.