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[ UK /pɹə‍ʊd‍ʒˈɛnɪtɐ/ ]
[ US /pɹoʊˈdʒɛnɪtɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. an ancestor in the direct line

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  • By analyzing DNA sequences of two single-copy nuclear genes and the genomic AFLP data, we assess the allopolyploid origin of A. collina-4x from ancestors corresponding to A. setacea-2x and A. asplenifolia-2x, and the ongoing backcross introgression between these diploid progenitor and tetraploid progeny lineages. BioMed Central - Latest articles
  • In these Puppenspiele (puppet-shows) the comic element largely prevails and is kept up by the comic figure Kasperle, a buffoon or 'Hanswurst' of the same character as the Italian Pulcinella, the progenitor of our The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'
  • `Samuel Byrd, progenitor and jokester, was supposed to have been the classic roistering robber baron," Livvy said. DEATH OF A NYMPH
  • The comparison of newly formed polyploids with their haploid progenitors has revealed that nascent polyploids have a defect in stationary-phase viability.
  • From these preparations peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) were isolated by Ficoll-Paque centrifugation and two PBS washes From the PBMC, erythroid progenitor cells (EPC) were generated via culture in an expansion medium containing erythropoietic growth factors PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • In some sense, every model organism needs to be developed and selected from its natural progenitors, and no organism will be an entirely ideal model.
  • There is, however, evidence of genome downsizing in polyploids relative to their diploid progenitors in some cases.
  • Et quia inter nos & vos, nostr髎que & vestros subditos hinc inde foueri desideramus mutuam concordiam & amorem; ita quod mercatores nostri & vestri mercandisas suas in nostris & vestris regnis & dominijs liber�, & absque impedimento valeant exercere, prout temporibus progenitorum nostrorum fieri consueuit, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • But in the middle Tertiary the mammal brain began suddenly to enlarge, so that in our time the brain of the horse is more than eight times the size of the brain of his progenitor, the dinoceras of Eocene times. Time and Change
  • Maize was domesticated from its wild progenitor, teosinte, between 6,250 and 10,000 years ago in a single domestication event.
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