Sentence examples for ancient activities from inspiring English sources

Raising livestock and the harvesting of grains are ancient activities, but when did humankind decide it also needed crème brulee?

Consistent with the ancient activities of SINEU-1 and SINEU-3 families, their copy numbers in the three crocodilian genomes are comparable around 7,700 and 1,600, respectively.

And there's comfort, too, in performing an ancient activity.

Plant breeding is an ancient activity, dating to the very beginnings of agriculture.

This ancient activity, which accounts for only 8% of world merchandise trade, is the most heavily distorted by misbegotten policies.

NAMING animals and plants is surely an ancient activity: there is much selective value in recognizing creatures that are similar to others we already know from experience to be edible or noxious, docile or hostile.

The presence of paralogous genes at different sites within a microbial genome might be the result of ancient activity of transposable elements and/or duplication of genome fragments as well as whole-genome duplications (Fani 2004).

However it was not until the 1990s that the settlement at Mellor was discovered; the site had a lack of tell-tale earthworks, such as a circular ditch (which would indicate ancient activity).

Although Sho and PrPC have dissimilar N-terminal regions that may tailor their activities in different neuroanatomic sites, we infer that the center of both PrPC and Sho comprises a functionally conserved and ancient activity domain contributing to neuroprotection.

It is likely that the complex branching pattern of crocodilian and turtle CR1 subfamilies within CR1 groups D and G is the result of ancient activity in their common ancestor, a hypothesis consistent with their high intrasubfamily divergence levels, the highest among CR1 elements in crocodilian genomes (supplementary fig. S2, Supplementary Material online).

It has been generally held that about half of the human genome is derived from mobile genomic elements, but according to a recent estimate over two-thirds of our genome may result from the presence or ancient activity of 'jumping genes' [ 1].