Example sentences for: descendant

How can you use “descendant” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Finally, he is devoted to his maternal grandmother, a descendant of a dishworship of Scots .

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • They built towns, industries, roads, and bridges, developed agriculture, and bequeathed the Latin language, of which Portuguese is a direct descendant.

  • His father, Hirohito, was until 1946 considered a divinity, the living descendant of the gods that created Japan (or ancient Yamato, as it is more evocatively known).


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