The phrase "a more distant relative" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing family relationships that are not immediate, such as cousins or extended family members.
Example: "While I may not know her well, she is a more distant relative of mine through my grandmother's side."
Alternatives: "a more remote relative" or "a further removed relative".
Eric Molson, his brother, Ian, and a more distant relative, Stephen T. Molson, are the controlling shareholders.
Today's ruling "addresses only the asylum issue, not the care issue," she said, adding, "The immigration laws clearly call for a child to be placed in the care of a parent, in preference to a more distant relative, while the child's immigration status is being resolved".
"I can't put a figure on it, but what I would say is there are a number of people who have British passports, they want to come to Britain with their families, the Home Office isn't allowing them in, for reasons I can only speculate, but maybe to do with the income of the family, possibly because there's a more distant relative involved, an uncle or something.
Sorghum and sugarcane belong to the Saccharinae clade and diverged from each other only 8too 9 mya [20], while rice is a more distant relative and separated from this clade 50 mya [23].
In the new study, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan, compared turtle embryos to those of a close relative, chickens, and a more distant relative, mice.
Generally speaking, "kohanim" (priests) are only permitted to tend to the burial needs of an immediate family member -- a parent, sibling or child -- but not to a more distant relative.
The closest relative of C. neoformans and C. gattii, Cryptococcus amylolentus, does not contain a PRP8 intein, nor does a slightly more distant relative, C. heveanensis [ 20].
Our results with vertebrate cells prompted us to consider whether these same mammalian genes can induce iPSC-like features in a yet more distant relative, in Drosophila, an invertebrate (550 MYA removed; Figure 1A) (Sullivan et al., 2006).
Combining the presence of an essential orthologue in an evolutionarily more distant relative (S. cerevisiae) with an additional, closely-related species (i.e., D. melanogaster) increased this probability further - C. elegans genes with an orthologue in both D. melanogaster and S. cerevisiae, each with a lethal phenotype, had an 81% probability of lethality.
Indeed, frogs and humans are exactly equally related to fishes through this common ancestor (recall that two cousins are equally related to a third, more distant relative).
More precisely, we analyzed trios of sequences, consisting on the sequence that we want to analyze, one of its closest relatives and a third, more distant relative.
