(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.
Posterity
Definition:
(n.) The race that proceeds from a progenitor; offspring to the furthest generation; the aggregate number of persons who are descended from an ancestor of a generation; descendants; -- contrasted with ancestry; as, the posterity of Abraham.
(n.) Succeeding generations; future times.
Example Sentences:
(1) An ‘approved’ poster in the student center at Regent University.
(2) A picture, so they say, paints a thousand words, or in this case a poster does.
(3) Many businessmen like it.” At the entrance to Jiang’s swish showroom, customers are welcomed by posters of a cigar-smoking Winston Churchill and the Queen Mother, standing beside Land Rovers.
(4) Tiny, tiny... rodents – some soft and grey, some brown with black stripes, in paintings, posters, wallcharts, thumb-tacked magazine clippings and poorly executed crayon drawings, hurling themselves fatally in their thousands over the cliff of their island home; or crudely taxidermied and mounted, eyes glazed and little paws frozen stiff – on every available surface.
(5) A 1977 Apple II computer sits in the background, near a poster that reads "Think" – presumably a nod to Apple's "Think different" advertising campaign of the late 1990s.
(6) According to the NYPD commissioner, Bill Bratton, whose voice almost cracked with emotion as he addressed the media on Saturday evening , the “digital warning poster” featuring a picture of Brinsley and his whereabouts arrived at the data centre at 2.47pm.
(7) As a precociously talented young artist, his interests didn't lie with landscape or the countryside – "though I did collect frog spawn and things like that" – but more with the advertising, posters and signwriting he saw around town.
(8) The SNP MP John Nicolson said of Daley’s case: “His poster sales have gone up and now there are wee girls and wee boys putting his poster up on the walls.
(9) The genesis of much of Rousey’s criticism about the woman who ran over Gina Carano, MMA’s first poster girl, stems from this.
(10) It has not been possible in this review to cover all the submitted posters nor indeed all the points discussed during the workshop session.
(11) He will sell his country's transition from international pariah to poster boy for democratic change, trade and investment.
(12) Major Richard Streatfeild, 40, who the Ministry of Defence used as a "poster boy" for the war, was a commanding officer in the insurgent stronghold of Sangin during some of the fiercest fighting.
(13) We discovered that patients want health education in the form of both videos and leaflets, but not posters.
(14) Treating voters like idiots doesn't often work – so the posters with a picture of a sick baby, saying, "She needs a new cardiac facility not an alternative voting system", or of the soldier, reading, "He needs bulletproof vests, not an alternative voting system", must surely be an insult too far to the public's intelligence.
(15) The state of allergy to penicillins was found in the posterity of the female hamsters with both the positive and negative skin reactions on immunization during the 2nd half of the pregnancy.
(16) I gave the finger to the Tea Party during the Park51 protest, and spraying the poster was my way of doing the same to Pamela Geller.
(17) Then yesterday Osborne made everything worse by unveiling a completely contradictory poster (he does know that abolishing the "jobs tax" will increase the debt, right?)
(18) In Tahrir, the urban heart of the revolution where so many protesters met their end, thousands answered that call, many tearing down Shafik posters on the way.
(19) People in Westminster didn’t see the real picture because there were not as many 48-sheet posters as usual,” says Muirhead.
(20) Concert posters that play music when you touch them have been discussed, while an artist has mixed the paint with oil in a lamp so that when the lamp is tilted, the light dims.