Example sentences for: origin

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  • This painting inspired several paragraphs of purple prose from Martin Heidegger, when the old Nazi was holed up in his thatched cottage in the Black Forest after the war, thinking about "The Origin of the Work of Art."

  • The evidence of an evolutionary relationship between the core catalytic domains of the RDRPs and the DDRPs has implications for the origin of the former group of proteins.

  • CD1a is expressed in differentiated antigen-presenting cells and monocytes and is used as a marker for the presence of these cells in the skin [ 24 25 26 ] . The CD1 molecules are the products of five CD1 genes located on chromosome 1. The genes are closely related to the mixed histocompatibilty complex (MHC) genes indicating origin from a common precursor [ 27 ] . CD1 molecules, however, have limited sequence homology to MHC class I and II molecules, and unlike the MHC molecules are also capable of binding non-protein antigens [ 28 29 ] .

  • A few examples follow: dipper duck for the pied-billed grebe; jakes for young male turkeys (their elders are toms); loopwood or witch hobble for the hobblebush ( Viburnum alnifolium ) because the stems bend over and grow roots at the tips creating a loop that can abruptly trip a hiker in snowy woods; pippin , not for the apple, but for the tangy, red berry of wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens); pugger for ferret; quong-queedle for the bobolink; rain crow for the cuckoo, often heard before rain; scoke (or skoke ) for pokeweed ( Phytolacca americana ) of Massachusett Indian origin; skipper for a young deer; and finally an imaginative one, whippoorwill shoes for the lady's slipper orchid (Cypripedium acaule) .

  • Our initial goal was to estimate divergence times for the last common ancestor (LCA), the divergence between archaebacteria and eukaryotes (AK), cyanobacteria and closest eubacterial relatives (origin of cyanobacteria, BC), eubacteria and mitochondrial eukaryotes (origin of mitochondria, BK-m), and Giardia and other eukaryotes (GK) (Fig.


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