"ancestor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- For evolutionary systematicists, "monophyletic" means only that a group is derived from a single common ancestor.
- All sexually reproducing eukaryotic organisms derive from a common ancestor which was a single celled species.
- They had to be derived from a common ancestor: your own ancestor, the Pak breeder.
- Homology (biology), any characteristic of biological organisms that is derived from a common ancestor.
- The reptiles were probably derived from an amphibious ancestor, probably early in the Carboniferous.
- A homologous trait is any characteristic which is derived by evolution from a common ancestor.
- A similar developmental origin suggests they are the same structure, and thus likely derived from a common ancestor.
- Man is derived from an ancestor that he holds in common with the existing great apes.
- Schizochroal eyes appear quite suddenly in the early Ordovician, and were presumably derived from a holochroal ancestor.
- The comparative analysis suggests both mycobacteria derived from a common ancestor and, at one stage, had gene pools of similar size.
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