Using "ancestor" in a sentence

Cytosine deamination frequencies were then estimated using the newly developed metaDMG, by first finding the lowest common ancestor across all possible alignments for each read and then calculating damage patterns for each taxonomic level36 (Supplementary Information, section 6).
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While these observations give us insights into how the Rickettsiales adapted to the intracellular environment, it is still unclear how and when their last free-living ancestor became host-associated initially.
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Humans’ last common ancestor with octopuses, for example, was a seafloor-trawling flatworm that lived around 750 million years ago, and did not possess anything other than a rudimentary brain.
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Scientists consider the two species highly divergent; they last shared a common ancestor over 10 million years ago.
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Novel predators reshape holozoan phylogeny and reveal the presence of a two-component signaling system in the ancestor of animals.
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This content could not be loadedSpeaking of Britney Spears and Marilyn Monroe, did you know it's highly likely that they're actually related?It's speculated that they share Richard Scott as a common ancestor from many generations ago! pic.
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If we go far enough back in evolutionary history, we encounter the last known common ancestor of humans and cephalopods: a primitive wormlike animal with minimal intelligence and simple eyespots.
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To date, Pikaia fossils have been found only in Canada, and as long as no older fossil is found, Pikaia is considered the earliest ancestor of vertebrates, which include birds, reptiles, bony fish and mammals, including humans.
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* You can teach the mechanics, the craft, the genres of poetry by referencing the ancestor texts of poetry or by studying the field according to theory, but you cannot make a poet.
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He played his own ancestor in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and directed 3 DS9s and one #StarTrekEnterprise.
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Dan Tawfik, together with colleagues, mathematically reconstructed a possible long-lost ancestor of modern proteins.
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The placental mammal ancestor and the post-K–Pg radiation of placentals.
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While my high-speed, industrial machine of choice is the classic Juki DDL 8700 and its ancestor the ridiculously heavy (read: definitely not portable) DDL 555-4, my favorite portable, home sewing machine is a lightweight Brother.
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This idea comes full circle at the end of the film when after all the action, Emerald sees OJ sitting upon his horse through the haze – a call back to the image of their ancestor riding his horse that was interspersed throughout the film.
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Credit: Bruce Thomson/Nature Picture Library Chances of finding COVID ancestor ‘almost nil’The virus that causes COVID-19 probably shared an ancestor with bat coronaviruses more recently than scientists had thought.
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And we can see that in this kind of situation that would have been very beneficial, particularly for our ancestor mammals, who were largely occupying that kind of role at the time.
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 Soltis (2017) reviewed the problematic position of the various fossil taxa and concluded that “Pentoxylales, like Bennettitales, have been envisioned as part of a separate lineage, perhaps sharing a common glossopterid ancestor with angiosperms, but not as a close relative or direct ancestor of the angiosperms.
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The story of Menaka and Shakuntala is narrated in Mahabharata, and according to the Adi Parva of the epic, Shakuntala’s son Bharata was the ancestor of the Kauravas and Pandavas.
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In “Bar Association,” tired of his mistreatment and low pay, Rom is inspired by O’Brien’s story of his Irish ancestor who formed a union to help himself and his fellow miners.
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Wednesday destroys the zombified Joseph Crackstone, Laurel Gate's ancestor and the town's founder who despises Outcasts, with the help of Siren Bianca, and Eugene defeats Gates with a swarm of bees.
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 This evidence was found in species of all types, from animals to single-cell protists – organisms whose last common ancestor lived over 1.
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The last common ancestor between octopuses and humans was 500 million years ago, and the species have since evolved in very different contexts.
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The programme records the immediate ancestor of each clone (defined in terms of driver mutations) and the matrix of Hamming distances between clones (that is, for each pair of clones, how many driver mutations are found in only one clone), which together allow us to reconstruct driver phylogenetic trees.
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Once technology to run ancestor simulations becomes widely available and affordable it should be possible to change the probability of us living in a simulation by running sufficiently large number of historical simulations of our current year, and by doing so increasing our indexical uncertainty [66].
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In the current study, scientists have analyzed more than 3 million SARS-CoV-2 genomes from the publicly available viral genome database and used two gene loci to identify the haplotype for the most recent common ancestor (MRCA) and determine the proximal geographical origin of the virus.
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Xavier, who was at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in Germany at the time, looked for protein families that were common across the species of bacteria, as these were likely to be truly ancient—dating back over three billion years to the last common ancestor of all bacteria.
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As it turns out, you cannot just link any two elements you want – you can only link elements where the containing shadow roots are in an ancestor-descendant relationship (and the relationship can only go in one direction).
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One of them is an Indigenous installation, depicting Yawkyawk – young female water ancestor spirits, originating from the Kuninjku people in Western Arnhem Land.
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 Related: Ancient armored 'worm' is the Cambrian ancestor to three major animal groups The fossilized body (top left) and fossilized brain (top right) of the worm-like critter.
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The Oxford Dictionary of Botany defines a clone as “a group of genetically identical cells or individuals, derived from a common ancestor by asexual reproduction.
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DNA analysis of that jawbone showed the DNA included sequences from a single Neanderthal ancestor who lived four or six generations prior – which likely explains its mixed features.
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128)66 and classified using a reimplementation of CREST’s last common ancestor algorithm.
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The phylogenetic tree revealed close relatedness of JAS1 with recognized Rhizobium pusense strain NRCPB10T (GenBank accession number NR_116874)30 as both share a common ancestor (Fig.
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The artwork, bought in 1751 by the Earl's ancestor Francis Charteris, had earlier received a 'light clean' and was sold as 'Chardin and studio', with Mr Dickinson believing there were limited opportunities to sell it due to an expert's view that it was not wholly by the renowned French artist.
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Of course, Richard is a common ancestor that goes back hundreds of years and several generations, so it's possible that even Britney is unaware of the connection, and she has never said anything to suggest she knows.
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“This goes back to the idea that the basic ingredients for all the variation we have in dogs today was largely present in a wolf ancestor,” Maclean says.
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Our phylogenomic analyses based on 15 genomes and 1 transcriptome revealed 2,469 gymnosperm-wide duplications in 9,545 gene families and indicate that this WGD event dates to the most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of extant gymnosperms (Fig.
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They had an ancestor that was also crab shaped.
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They had an ancestor that was also crab shaped.
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 EBRPD These are the fossilized homes of an ancient ancestor to ghost shrimp.
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Modern pitcher plants may have been preceded by an ancestor that simply had slightly cupped leaves, which helped it retain water or capture nutrients.
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Virgos love a DIY project and Thornhill’s involves stitching together human remains to resurrect her dead ancestor in order to execute a vengeance plot.
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1 PANGO lineage/20C Nextstrain clade (100% ultrafast bootstrap (UFB)) that shared a most recent common ancestor (MRCA) between May and July 2021 (95% highest posterior density (HPD) node age bounds; Extended Data Fig.
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Quite like her ancestor Bhimadeva I, who had drawn the forces of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni to a battleground of his choice where the enemy was disadvantaged, Naiki Devi planned the conquest against the Ghorid army in the rugged terrains of Gadaraghatta.
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Western Australian Museum's fish curator Glen Moore says the discovery contained an interesting mix of modern and ancient shark parts, including some from the immediate ancestor of the megalodon.
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But there is a "heretical idea," she said, that perhaps the "ancient jawed" birds evolved separately from a different long-tailed ancestor than the "modern jawed" birds.
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Amer: They were able to piece together evidence that the last common ancestor of all lungfish and tetrapods started vocalizing more than 400 million years ago.
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Hannah Shafaat, co-author of the study and a professor in chemistry and biochemistry at The Ohio State University, said her team’s artificial model of the enzyme reveals a lot about how its native ancestor might have acted during Earth’s first few billion years.
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Malcolm was also an ancestor of King James, for whom Shakespeare wrote his play, which accounts somewhat for the villainous depiction of Macbeth.
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“Previously, the common ancestor of all those living forms was dated in the Middle Jurassic, whereas we’re now pulling it back to the late Triassic,” said Benton.
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The ancestor who left them this estate managed to unearth these creatures, and now has made it the player’s job to vanquish them before they take over the world as they know it.
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Nobody knows who she was, just that she was different: A teenage girl from over 50,000 years ago of such odd uniqueness she appeared to be a 'hybrid' ancestor to modern humans that scientists hadn't seen before.
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"Since the 1990s," Warshaw and Fowler wrote in a statement, "debate has surrounded Daspletosaurus, a large tyrannosaurid known from Montana and Alberta, which has been proposed to be an ancestor of T.
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Research has shown that, when looking at the male-specific region of the Y chromosome, modern equine breeds genetically mostly cluster together in what is called the “crown group”, whose most recent common ancestor originated about 1000 to 2000 years ago from Oriental founder stallions.
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We share a common ancestor with every living creature on our planet, implying we all can trace our evolutionary history back to the same ancient organisms.
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, a play by Wilson or Lorraine Hansberry—than to the buzzy re-anointing of a generational talent, creative ancestor of such writers as Aleshea Harris or Jackie Sibblies Drury.
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Together, these data reconstruct the medusozoan ancestor as being broadly scyphozoan-like, with a polyp-encasing periderm (Fig.
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Scientists peered back through time to further examine the last known common ancestor between humans and cephalopods.
Source: Popular Science

Wolves are repopulating California, where their last wild ancestor was killed in 1924.
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Unlike Banyoles, this mandible shows a full chin along with some Neandertal features, and an ancient DNA analysis has revealed this individual had a Neandertal ancestor four to six generations ago.
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At a grand old theatre in Pigalle called Casino de Paris, however, le tout Paris is punching the air and singing along to Bii Biyegelee, a surprisingly catchy song about ancestor worship — sung in Mongolian.
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