(n.) Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.
(n.) A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Her black persona unravelled this week when Ruthanne and Larry Dolezal, a couple named on her Montana birth certificate as her biological parents, told Spokane’s KREM 2 News that her ancestry was German and Czech, with traces of Native American.
(2) As many as 7,717 babies born consecutively and 3,412 blood donors of Sardinian ancestry have been examined for the detection of the Hb J-Sardegna variant [alpha 50(CE8)His----Asp]; all subjects were from Northern Sardinia.
(3) This paper examines findings from the new ancestry question from the perspective of measuring ethnicity.
(4) The frequencies of the alleles in this population of Japanese ancestry are highly different from those of Brazilian Caucasoid blood donors but rather similar to those of Brazilian Negroid donors.
(5) Group A consists of French women of European ancestry, Group B, those born in the French Antilles of mixed ancestry, and Group C black African women with insignificant European admixture.
(6) Genetic markers in people of African ancestry and tables comparing Africans and Europeans are compiled to illustrate the blood differences.
(7) The two mutant alleles are common among caucasians of northern European ancestry; detection in genomic DNA samples of patients and carriers by hybridisation with oligonucleotides specific for the respective mutant alleles requires fractionation of restriction-enzyme-digested genomic DNA samples by gel electrophoresis.
(8) All 331 individuals were unrelated Caucasians of Danish ancestry.
(9) Furthermore, these results demonstrate that flypaper traps share close common ancestry with all other trap forms.
(10) The limited data that are available for Hispanic populations suggest that there is at least a 10-fold difference in risk between individuals of Hispanic ancestry in Colorado and Mexicans in Mexico City.
(11) 8 mature dogs of mixed sheep-dog ancestry 10-17 kg body weight were studied.
(12) An adjustment for the fact the same allele of a biallelic polymorphism may go to fixation in two inbred lines of common ancestry leads to the suggestion that in the stock from which these inbred lines were ultimately derived, there were some 11.0 percent paired and 5.3 percent unpaired polymorphisms in the average mouse.
(13) The effects of environmental exposures on the development of gastric and duodenal ulcers were investigated in a prospective study of 7,624 American men of Japanese ancestry in Hawaii.
(14) The same inversion is observed in the lymphocytes of the chimpanzee, indicating the ancestry of this inversion.
(15) Meanwhile, race was codified into laws determining that even one drop of African ancestry rendered a person legally black.
(16) The rate of change of amino acid sequence varies greatly from protein to protein, and this naturally affects how far back a given protein's ancestry can be traced.
(17) The first one comprises 57 clones that indicate relatives of nitrogen-fixing bacteria of the alpha-2 subclass of the class Proteobacteria; the second group of 7 clones originates from members of the order Planctomycetales that, however, reveal no close relationship to any of the described Planctomycetales species; 22 clones of the third group are indicative of members of a novel main line of descent, sharing a common ancestry with members of planctomycetes and chlamydiae.
(18) Major risk factors associated with cholesterol gallstone formation are American Indian ancestry, female sex, obesity, and ingestion of lithogenic drugs, such as estrogen-containing preparations and clofibrate.
(19) The Robertsonian translocation 5(13;14)(p11;q11) was studied in three families with probable common ancestry in Eastern Finland.
(20) Furthermore, close sequence similarity between BexA and BexB and products of the kpsT and kpsM genes at the Escherichia coli K5 capsulation locus (Smith et al., 1990--accompanying paper) suggests that capsulation genes in these organisms may have a common ancestry.
Household
Definition:
(n.) Those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family.
(n.) A line of ancestory; a race or house.
(a.) Belonging to the house and family; domestic; as, household furniture; household affairs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Shelter’s analysis of MoJ figures highlights high-risk hotspots across the country where families are particularly at risk of losing their homes, with households in Newham, east London, most exposed to the possibility of eviction or repossession, with one in every 36 homes threatened.
(2) Size of household was the most important predictor of both the total level of household food expenditures and the per person level.
(3) The industry will pay a levy of £180m a year, or the equivalent of £10.50 a year on all household insurance policies.
(4) There are currently more than 380,000 households on local authority waiting lists in the capital – and the number is growing every day.
(5) 5) Super-infection with HDV of an HBsAg-positive household contact was significantly predicted by female sex of the index case and by anti-HDV positivity.
(6) As a strategy to reach hungry schoolchildren, and increase domestic food production, household incomes and food security in deprived communities, the GSFP has become a very popular programme with the Ghanaian public, and enjoys solid commitment from the government.
(7) Twenty-eight out of 49 countries in [sub-Saharan] Africa have not had a household survey since 2006 and yet in Africa since 2005 the population has grown by 30%,” she said.
(8) Pensioners, like those in receipt of long-term social welfare payments or those who can prove they cannot provide their heating needs during winter, are entitled to a means-tested weekly winter fuel allowance of €20 (£ 14.54) per household.
(9) The Lords will vote on three key amendments: • To exclude child benefit from the cap calculation (this would roughly halve the number of households affected).
(10) Energy UK said the help offered by its members to pensioners and low-income households was the equivalent of giving shoppers £135 per year.
(11) "We were the ones with the most over-indebted banks, the most over-indebted households and we had the biggest budget deficit of virtually any country, anywhere in the world.
(12) Buckingham Palace was drawn into the dispute when it was revealed that Pownall had sought advice from the Lord Chamberlain, a key officer in the royal household, on the potential misuse of the portcullis emblem due to it being the property of the Queen.
(13) Childcare carves out a hefty third of household income for one in three families, overshadowing mortgage repayments as the biggest family expenditure .
(14) Subtyping performed on 10 HB-Ag-positive households showed the subtype to be the same within nine, emphasizing the epidemiological rather than the pathological importance of the ;ay' and ;ad' subtypes of the HB-Ag.
(15) It puts the number of LMI households with or without children at 5.8 million, comprising 5.1 million men and 5 million women.
(16) It combined regular interviews with a study of the impact on each household of benefit changes, pension reforms, social care cuts and fuel price increases.
(17) Continuing pressure on household finances during the next 12 months will no doubt remain a constraint."
(18) Analysis of the epidemic curve and intervals of onset of multiple cases within households suggested prolonged common source exposure rather than secondary person-to-person transmission.
(19) Currently, entitlement to CTC for families with one to three children is fully exhausted when gross household earnings reach about £26,000 and £40,000 a year respectively.
(20) Emergency teams are still working to reconnect 10,000 households in northern England which lost power in blizzards and gales, after all-night repairs on collapsed cables which left 80,000 cut off.