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The New Cassell's French Dictionary defines enfant in English as: “Child, infant, baby; son or daughter; descendant; citizen, native; ( Law ) offspring, issue.”
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.
He discovered a Minor descendant and found a trove of correspondence that makes the story much richer (and more factual) than what was otherwise known.
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.
.. a descendant of Adriaen van Bergen, part owner of the famous turf boat in which a party of Dutch troops were clandestinely introduced in the year 1599 into the castle of that city.”