Sentence examples for their common ancestry from inspiring English sources
All members of a lineage trace their common ancestry to a single person.
The Somali people are divided into numerous clans, which are groups that trace their common ancestry back to a single father.
Although there are some notable variations between some primate groups, they share several anatomic and functional characteristics reflective of their common ancestry.
Yet all have very similar social systems, suggesting that their common ancestry — and the inherited genes that shape behavior — are a stronger influence than ecology on their social structure.
Such annotation is generally based on known functions of similar gene sequences in other organisms, a type of analysis made possible by evolutionary conservation of gene sequence and function across organisms as a result of their common ancestry.
Why do textbooks use drawings of similarities in vertebrate embryos as evidence for their common ancestry — even though biologists have known for over a century that vertebrate embryos are not most similar in their early stages, and the drawings are faked?
Similarly, the gnd sequence of Rhinoscleromatis isolates (alleles gnd-42, gnd-45 and gnd-46) were either identical or highly similar (Figure 2) to those of K. pneumoniae K3 isolates (gnd-42, gnd-43 and gnd-44), demonstrating their recent common ancestry and their horizontal transfer into distinct genomic backgrounds.
Previous data has demonstrated that after their divergence, microbes retain patterns of genome signature reflective of their recent common ancestry similar to that of 16s rDNA [ 15].
Comparative protein analysis demonstrated that the African apes were most similar genetically to H. sapiens, inferring their recent common ancestry to the exclusion of other apes and monkeys.
Further genotyping revealed that this single informative variant at position 8814 was shared among all samples, confirming their remote common ancestry within X2b1.
We excluded direct comparisons between the two pufferfish sequences to avoid biased results due to their recent common ancestry.
