(n.) One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.
(n.) An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.
(n.) One from whom an estate has descended; -- the correlative of heir.
Example Sentences:
(1) The high frequency of increased PCV number in San, S.A. Negroes and American Negroes is in keeping with the view that the Khoisan peoples (here represented by the San), the Southern African Negroes and the African ancestors of American Blacks sprang from a common proto-negriform stock.
(2) The 500-bp element arose by duplication of one half of a 180-bp ancestor and insertion of a foreign segment between the two duplicated parts followed by amplification.
(3) The five offspring are ancestors of all known carriers.
(4) They are related as fourth cousins once-removed and fifth cousins in multiple ways through the six nearest common ancestors of all four parents.
(5) An analysis of 54 protein sequences from humans and rodents (mice or rats), with the chicken as an outgroup, indicates that, from the common ancestor of primates and rodents, 35 of the proteins have evolved faster in the lineage to mouse or rat (rodent lineage) whereas only 12 proteins have evolved faster in the lineage to humans (human lineage).
(6) Writing in the journal Nature , the researchers describe how our ancestors lost another piece of DNA that gives rise to both facial whiskers and sensitive spines on the tip of the penis, both of which are found in chimpanzees and other non-human primates.
(7) With the use of the chimpanzee and human sequences to calibrate the rate of mtDNA evolution, the age of the common human mtDNA ancestor is placed between 166,000 and 249,000 years.
(8) The functional and phyletic significance of this material reveals a complex pattern of behavioral and phyletic diversity among large-bodied catarrhines in Europe and suggests that this diversity evolved in situ from circum-Mediterranean middle Miocene ancestors.
(9) Regressions of descendant net revenue on ancestor net revenue were predominantly negative but generally were not significant.
(10) This finding also suggests that the Hex, Mut, and PMS systems evolved from a common ancestor and that functionally similar mismatch repair systems could be widespread among procaryotic as well as eucaryotic organisms.
(11) -In several cases, second or third generation descendents of 3T3 cells were observed to repeat track patterns of their ancestor cell.
(12) Within the family, EIAV, HTLV-III, and visna appear to be equally divergent from a common evolutionary ancestor.
(13) We deduce that in ubiquitin genes, concerted evolution involves both unequal crossover and gene conversion, and that the average time since two repeated units within the polyubiquitin locus most recently shared a common ancestor is approximately 38 million years (Myr) in mammals, but perhaps only 11 Myr in Drosophila.
(14) During this evolution the interior of the core blocks evolved as a homogeneous repetitive structure, while ancestor repeat units remained as sequence relicts in the terminal parts.
(15) The divergence of a common ancestor protein into PF4 and gamma IP-10 may have accompanied the development of sophisticated immune and coagulation systems in vertebrates.
(16) Analysis of different Mus subspecies indicates that TLev1 integrated into a common ancestor of the species Mus musculus.
(17) In order to assess the possibility that such proteins may have arisen through processes of divergent evolution from a common ancestor, a graphical presentation is given which correlates the pattern of allowed single base substitutions defined by the genetic code with the associated changes in the structural properties of the encoded amino acids.
(18) In an attempt to reconstruct the universal ancestor of all present-day tubulin genes the intron positions in 38 different alpha- and beta-tubulin genes from plants, animals, fungi and protozoa were compared.
(19) This raises the possibility of two lines of descent from a common ancestor.
(20) Phylogenetic analysis indicates that these four main virus groups might have diverged from a common ancestor at about the same time, long before the spread of AIDS in humans.
Shrine
Definition:
(n.) A case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint.
(n.) Any sacred place, as an altar, tromb, or the like.
(n.) A place or object hallowed from its history or associations; as, a shrine of art.
(v. t.) To enshrine; to place reverently, as in a shrine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stonehenge stood at the heart of a sprawling landscape of chapels, burial mounds, massive pits and ritual shrines, according to an unprecedented survey of the ancient grounds.
(2) And Islamist extremists desecrated shrines built by Sufi Muslims and the graves of British soldiers.
(3) But this time warp is a Seville one, and all the statues of (ecclesiastical) virgins, winged cherubs, shrines and other Catholic paraphernalia, plus portraits of the late Duchess of Alba, give it a unique spirit, as do the clientele – largely local, despite Garlochí’s international fame as the city’s most kitsch bar.
(4) Four explosions hit the southern Damascus district of Sayeda Zeinab, where a revered Shia shrine is located, leaving 62 dead and 180 injured, according to the Observatory.
(5) Officials in Pakistan say they have killed at least 39 suspected militants in a sweeping security crackdown a day after a massive bombing claimed by Islamic State killed 88 people and injured hundreds more at a crowded shrine.
(6) Iran: 12 dead as Islamic State claims attacks on parliament and shrine Read more The mausoleum where Khomeini was laid to rest almost exactly 28 years ago, on 6 June 1989, is an enormous complex dominating the skyline south of Tehran.
(7) Built in 1869, the shrine deifies almost 2.5 million Japanese soldiers and civilians who died in wars since the second half of the 19th century.
(8) Francis, however, said the treatment hospital was a "shrine to human suffering" that emphasised the need to confront the scourge of drugs through education, justice and stronger social values.
(9) So intense was the pre‑match excitement in Dortmund over the return of the prodigal Jürg – much of it media-led – that walking around this flat, functional city on the afternoon of the game you half expected to stumble across Klopp shrines, New Orleans-style Klopp jazz funerals, to look up and find his great beaming visage looming over the city like some vast alien saucer.
(10) Then, in December, Abe paid a visit to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, where 14 war criminals from the second world war are honored.
(11) US secretary of state John Kerry lights a candle and lays roses at the 'shrine of the fallen' for protesters killed in Kiev.
(12) While there is little prospect of summit talks, Abe said he wanted to explain the reasons behind his visit to the shrine to Chinese leader Xi Jinping and South Korean president Park Geun-hye.
(13) Behind them, hundreds more slowly make their way up the steps in front of the hidden main sanctuary, waiting their turn to pray at Ise Jingu , Japan’s most revered Shinto shrine.
(14) But to do Hakone justice, find a reasonably priced ryokan and take a couple of days to explore the volcanic geysers of Owakudani, the botanical gardens, the cherry blossom in spring and Hakone shrine on the shore of the lake.
(15) Mourners pay tribute to the victim at a makeshift shrine in Delhi.
(16) Grace Roffe Idyllic village, Nepal Facebook Twitter Pinterest The entrance to the village shrine, Kakani.
(17) Read more While their main aim is to prevent the building becoming a shrine for the steady stream of neo-Nazi supporters who still make their way to Braunau, there has been an ongoing discussion over what more positive purpose it might serve.
(18) Although the double-decker bus height sarsens are undoubtedly the most impressive, Darvill and Wainwright believe they were essentially an architectural framework for the bluestones, just as towering medieval cathedrals grew over the shrines of saints.
(19) The Muslim Brotherhood's leader, Mohamed Badie, had earlier stoked tensions by calling Sisi's overthrow of Morsi a more heinous crime than the destruction of Islam's most sacred shrine.
(20) Ise Shrine is clearly an important historical and cultural site, so it would usually not be seen as a problematic place to visit,” said Mark Mullins, professor of Japanese studies at the University of Auckland.