Sentence examples for share common ancestry from inspiring English sources

Homologous characters share common ancestry (Figure 4 and Table 1), and for this reason they are useful in reconstructing phylogeny.

"If African and Eurasian golden jackals belonged to the same species, we would expect these two groups to be more closely related (share common ancestry)", said Dr Koepfli.

And Comas's study shows not only that they share common ancestry from north-west India, but also that they have mixed extensively with other Europeans.

Strikingly, rare biallelic point mutations identified by whole-genome and targeted "HAR-ome" sequencing showed a significant excess in individuals with ASD whose parents share common ancestry compared to familial controls, suggesting a contribution in 5% of consanguineous ASD cases.

Genealogists like to chuckle at companies that sell mass-produced coats of arms, supposedly based on a surname history; they say the lists of names provided rarely share common ancestry.

A substitution shared between individuals indicates that these individuals share common ancestry with the individual within whom the original mutation occurred.

Most notably, there are seven riboswitch families with four distinct binding pockets that are specific for SAM and/or S-adenosylhomocysteine (SAH) although it is not clear whether they share common ancestries [ 2].

Closely related individuals tend to share a larger number of similar features than do distantly related individuals, as a result of their shared common ancestry.

Closely related individuals tend to share a larger number of similar features than do distantly related individuals as a result of their shared common ancestry.

In contrast, an accurate phylogenetic grouping would place crocodiles with birds based on shared common ancestry (Figure 1).

As discussed below, fast-evolving genes can lead to spurious groupings where lineages are grouped based on convergent similarity rather than sharing common ancestry.