Sentence examples for most distant relative from inspiring English sources

Among the great apes – a group that also includes humans, gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos – orangutans are our most distant relative.

In order to establish just how far back in evolutionary history the vertebrate-style eye emerged, one can look for our most distant relative that shares a similar type of eye.

Cyrus West's fortune is bequeathed to the most distant relative bearing the name West: Annabelle.

The most distant relative of c-MYB is the BAS1 gene of S. cerevisiae, involved in the regulation of HIS4 gene.

As would be expected, the least number of DArT sequences aligned to the rice EST dataset, which is the most distant relative of the species surveyed.

aSpecies are listed in phylogenetic order according to Ge et al. (1999) [11], with the species most closely related to O. sativa at the top of the table and the most distant relative at the bottom.

We share dozens of genes with our most distant relatives, single-celled bacteria and archaea.

Burials will continue to be free for even the most distant relatives of Shiloh inhabitants.

They are finding surprising links between the biology of humans and that of our most distant relatives — links that point the way to new drugs.

A plaque that marks "The Center of the Universe" at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory reads "Dare Mighty Things" and that NASA center has no more challenging space science mission than braving Jupiter's radiation belt and landing in a vacuum on the ice shell of Europa in hopes of finding our most distant relatives in the warm sea that lies beneath.

However, in all instances the species studied group within Laurasiatheria and Supraprimates, the most distant relatives of Xenarthra and Afrotheria that are thought to have diverged ~93 mya [ 52].