(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.
Mutt
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The name gastrin releasing peptide (GRP) was given to the porcine and avian heptacosapeptides by McDonald and Mutt.
(2) Such mutants were isolated by using mutT mutagenesis and an enrichment procedure devised to favor the growth of individuals that could form a pellicle in static broth containing alpha-methylmannoside, an inhibitor of erythrocyte binding and pellicle formation.
(3) Previous studies have shown that the mutT, mutH, mutL and mutS mutators of Escherichia coli confer a marked selective advantage on their respective hosts in competition with otherwise isogenic wild-type strains.
(4) 206, 9-16) and indicate that the first of the potential initiation codons (position 164) of the open reading frame in the PvuII fragment carrying the mutT gene is the site of initiation of translation of the 15,000-Da polypeptide.
(5) As Brodie waited to collect a back-pass, the mutt flew at him, knocking the Scotsman to the ground; he was stretchered off, having shattered his kneecap.
(6) Most of the mutants obtained had high spontaneous mutation rates and mapped close to the previously known mutators mutT, mutS, mutR, uvrE and mutL.
(7) The MutT protein, which prevents AT----CG transversions during DNA replication, hydrolyzes nucleoside triphosphates to yield nucleoside monophosphates and pyrophosphate.
(8) Specific labelling of plasmid-encoded proteins by the maxicell method revealed that mutT codes for a polypeptide of about 15,000 daltons.
(9) Obama, at his first press conference after the election, said the family preference was for a dog from a shelter - "a lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me".
(10) Mutt and Jorpes (49) originally isolated cholecystokinin (CCK) from porcine intestine.
(11) This error-avoiding process is catalysed by a protein encoded by the mutT gene of Escherichia coli, mutations of which increase the occurrence of A.T----C.G transversions 100 to 10,000 times the level of the wild type.
(12) These properties of the human 8-oxodGTPase are similar to those observed with the E. coli MutT protein, suggesting that the function of protecting the genetic information from the threat of endogenous oxygen radicals is widely distributed in organisms.
(13) However, the A.G mispairs normally prevented by the mutT function are refractory to mismatch repair, indicating that they may represent a structurally distinct class.
(14) Escherichia coli mutT strains are strong mutators yielding only A.T----C.G transversion mutations.
(15) Except for mutants of mutT type, these mutators also showed high mutability by bromouracil.
(16) A total of 103 ewes from the breeds Black mutt., Texel, Finn.
(17) The mutT nucleoside triphosphatase, which prevents AT----CG transversions during DNA replication, has been crystallized from ammonium sulfate utilizing a novel technique involving vapor diffusion in capillaries.
(18) We present biochemical evidence demonstrating that MutY glycosylase is an important part of a repair system that includes the MutM and MutT proteins.
(19) On the basis of the template specificity of the mutT effect in vitro, we conclude that the mutT effect involves the aberrant processing of A.G rather than T.C mispairs.
(20) We have analyzed the interaction between mutD5 and mutT-induced A:T-->C:G transversions by measuring reversion frequencies in mutD5 and mutT single mutator strains and mutD5mutT double mutator strains using the well-characterized trpA58 and trpA88 alleles.