(n.) Descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals; children; offspring; race, lineage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The haplotype of the recombinant X chromosome of each of 241 backcross progeny has been established using the X-linked anchor loci Otc, Hprt, Dmd, Pgk-1, and Amg and the additional probes DXSmh43 and Cbx-rs1.
(2) (E)-5-(2-Bromovinyl)uridine (BVUrd), the riboside counterpart of (E)-5-(2-bromovinyl)-2'-deoxyuridine (BVdUrd), effected a dose-dependent inhibition of viral progeny formation and viral DNA synthesis in herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1, strain KOS)-infected human (E6SM) diploid fibroblast cells.
(3) In a second phase of the study, a comparison was made between mortality rates of male and female progeny of White Leghorn-Rhode Island Red reciprocal crosses.
(4) In the progeny of the surviving males, neither translocations nor independent fragments are found; indirect evidence indicated the occasional presence of inversions.
(5) After irradiation by 137Cs gamma-rays at a dose of 5 Gy the males were mated to unirradiated females and genetic analysis of fertility in the F1 progeny was carried out.
(6) Thus, the progeny of infected primitive multipotential cells are competent to express integrated proviruses.
(7) The finding of idiotype diversity in the PC response, as well as diversity of expression in terms of quantity and immunoglobulin class of antibody synthesized by the clonal progeny of B cells within the TEPC 15 clonotype, emphasize the heterogeneity of the B-cell population both in terms of specificity repertoire and the physiological state of cells even within a single clonotype.
(8) This unusual pattern of unbalanced growth may represent an adaptation by bdellovibrios to maximize their progeny yield from the determinate amount of substrate available within a given prey cell.
(9) A significant increase of tumour frequency was detected in the progeny of these rats.
(10) It was found that the frequency of microphthalmia and anophthalmia in the female progeny of mice fed Mouse Chow was 7.4-9.2% in B10.A and B10.BR, 4.0-5.5% in B10.A(18R), B10, B10.A(5R), B10.A(1R), B10.A(15R), and B10.A(2R), and 0.8% and 1.4% in B10.D2 and B10.OL mice, respectively.
(11) The specific cellular defects in patched mutants suggests that this gene specifies a subset of neuroblasts and neural progeny underlying the region of epidermal pattern defect.
(12) Tibial breaking strength and tibial percentage ash of the progeny at hatching was markedly improved in proportion to maternal phosphorus and food intake.
(13) The progeny exposed to DES prenatally and DMBA postnatally (DES-DMBA-exposed progeny) developed a greater multiplicity of tumors per tumor-bearing animal (p less than 0.001) and higher rates of neoplasms of the reproductive tract, e.g., ovarian and uterine tumors, mammary gland and forestomach tumors, and dermal melanomas.
(14) 6 pregnancies were carried to term, and all progeny were normal, based on physical examination at birth or 3 months after.
(15) The SF were derived from normal appearing subepidermoid biopsies of ACR individuals, their progeny and ocntrols.
(16) Defective H genomes were present in the progeny virus two passages after transfection.
(17) A germ line mutation causing a tumour ('tumour mutation') is weakly carcinogenic by itself, but it is strongly expressed in the progeny after postnatal treatment with a small dose of the carcinogenesis promoting agent urethane.
(18) In the case of LTC-IC, the production of different types of lineage-restricted and multipotent progeny was also analyzed.
(19) Sequence analysis of progeny of untreated plasmids containing putative point mutations showed insertions and deletions of bases and a broad spectrum of base substitutions; in those from BPDE-treated plasmids, all base substitutions involved guanosine .
(20) Using this assay the kinetics of appearance of the progeny of transfused bone marrow and spleen cells in the thymus of irradiated (760 R) mice has been studied.
Scion
Definition:
(n.) A shoot or sprout of a plant; a sucker.
(n.) A piece of a slender branch or twig cut for grafting.
(n.) Hence, a descendant; an heir; as, a scion of a royal stock.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was at this time that Milosevic forged a close friendship with Stambolic, scion of an elite communist family.
(2) State they’re in This was the season American MBNA credit-card scion Randy Lerner finally announced his Villa venture was over and he wanted to sell.
(3) Congress party strategists say that their campaign leader Rahul Gandhi 's relative youth – the scion of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty is 43 – and their tradition of "pluralist secularism" will win over young people.
(4) Ineffectively led by the family scion Rahul, the party that won India its independence was comprehensively swept aside by Modi’s Bharatiya Janata party.
(5) Hall might be a scion of one of Britain's most important theatrical dynasties (his father is Peter, his half-sister Rebecca), but the cocky irreverence of his productions showed he had every intention of making his own mark.
(6) Two “prominent” Republicans told the New York Times that the scions of the respective affluent and well-connected white families will meet privately in Utah this week, not long before a Wall Street Journal reporter caught Bush at an airport gate for a flight headed to Salt Lake City, near where the Romney family keeps one of its largest houses .
(7) The judicial body confirmed establishing an indirect link with the elder Gaddafi scion, who is believed to be in southern Libya where he is attempting to reach either Niger or Mali.
(8) If it seems eccentric to compare Churchill, scion of the Dukes of Marlborough, with Davis, who was brought up in a council flat in south London, then factor in their shared attributes: unshakable self-confidence, a certain vanity, and a capacity to inspire affection and extreme irritation.
(9) Here, Visconti was doubly lucky; not only was he adapting a novel by Di Lampedusa, melancholic scion of a dwindled dynasty much like the one in The Leopard , but he himself – Luchino Visconti di Madrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo – was himself such a figure, the playboy descendent of a powerful feudal family that had controlled Milan and Pisa before the Renaissance.
(10) It is particularly noteworthy that overrepresented in this list of political scions are southern Democrats , most of whom are also women.
(11) Unveiling his party's manifesto for elections beginning 7 April, Rahul Gandhi, the scion of the country's most famous political dynasty and the face of the Congress campaign for re-election , said $1tn (£600bn) would be spent on India's inadequate infrastructure and a universal pension scheme created if his party was returned to power.
(12) He mixed with an international circle of acquaintances, including politicians and scions of industry.
(13) John Gotti Junior, scion of the famous Gambino Mafia family, will walk into a Manhattan courtroom.
(14) But New England is overflowing with enough dynastic ambition right now to make even scions of the gilded age blush.
(15) He was born with, if not a silver spoon, then at least a silver-plated spoon in his mouth, being a scion on his father's side of the Kennedy earldom which used to own Culzean Castle in Scotland, and on his mother's side of a Scottish baronetcy.
(16) Money, connections and media attention can be a gift for a young scion seeking to outshine his or her famous parent, but they can also be a curse and some, like Jones, go to great lengths to avoid them.
(17) • Athinas Street, Mon-Sat 8am-6pm Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika Gallery One of Greece’s most important 20th-century artists, Nikos Ghika was also a seriously minted scion of an aristocratic family (and a Rothschild by marriage) with exquisite taste in mid-century modern design.
(18) In controversial comments likely to cause a storm in India, Gandhi – considered a likely prime ministerial candidate and a scion of the country's leading political family – warned Timothy Roemer that although "there was evidence of some support for [Islamic terrorist group Laskar-e-Taiba] among certain elements in India's indigenous Muslim community, the bigger threat may be the growth of radicalised Hindu groups, which create religious tensions and political confrontations with the Muslim community ".
(19) The concept was exported to the US by Rorion Gracie, grandmaster of jiu jitsu , scion of one of the most famous fighting families in the world, and, as a 1989 article in Playboy put it, “the toughest man in the United States”.
(20) In the ensuing years – during which Hirsch was greeted by the American right as a prophet and a saviour, and by the left as a scion of the empire of evil – these ideas solidified.