Sentence examples for ancestral form from inspiring English sources

Miller is a prototype -- the primitive, ancestral form.

Perhaps Homo floresiensis arose from an ancestral form on a nearby island, such as Sulawesi, and thereafter crossed to Flores.

H3 relaxin is thought to be the ancestral form of the hormone.

The alcohol dehydrogenase class 3 enzyme (ADH3) is the presumed ancestral form of the medium-chain dehydrogenase-reductase ADH family.

Based on its phylogenetic distribution and sequence clustering, Anbu has been proposed as the "ancestral" form of proteasomes.

Each leaf has a very different shape and function, yet all are homologous structures, derived from a common ancestral form.

One theory proposes that the ancestral form was sessile (attached), perhaps like a pterobranch but with an unspecialized larva.

Most Africans and Europeans, on the other hand, possess the ancestral form of the gene, which makes wet earwax.

Both sounds are assumed to be derived from an ancestral form *kw in the Indo-European parent language.

In other words, there was no way the protein could select a preferable state that would lead it, in nature, toward its ancestral form.

It's notable that Triopticus is a particular outlier, being even more distant from the ancestral form that the pachycephalosaurs – it has quite an extreme set of anatomical features.