Sentence examples for known relative from inspiring English sources

Genetic analysis showed that this yaws strain was the closest known relative to venereal syphilis.

Okapis are the only known relative of the giraffe, but with the silhouette of an antelope.

The calf, who is about 2 years old, apparently was left behind by her pod and her only known relative, a grandmother.

Fossil bones of an animal no bigger than a shrew and weighing less than an ounce have been identified as belonging to the earliest known relative in the primate lineage that led to monkeys, apes and humans.

Smaller than a postage stamp and sporting eight flailing legs, large fangs and a distinctly portly body, the 305 million-year-old creature is the closest known relative - living or extinct - to spiders, the scientists claim.

A DNA analysis confirmed the organism's novelty: the genetic difference between the bacterium and its closest known relative was three per cent comparable to the variation between humans and mice.

Kiwis, for example, have nostrils at the tip of the beak and one of the largest olfactory bulbs known, relative to brain size.

P.P.A. is a clinical syndrome, one of several forms of brain disease lost in the medical shadow of their much better known relative Alzheimer's disease.

[Agence France-Presse] In the wild, the endangered panda dwells only in China, but its earliest known relative in the fossil record lived in Spain, paleontologists report.

The HLA haplotype frequencies for Middle Eastern populations are not well known relative to the rest of the world.

In India, young specimens are consumed along with L. deliciosus; some consider L. sanguifluus to have a better flavor than its more well-known relative.