Sentences with phrase «determine common ancestors»
After all, we want to use DNA to help us with our genealogy research and find DNA relatives and in so doing, determine common ancestors and the lines that connect us.
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In a separate study, a team at the University of Reading in England reviewed cognates (similar sounding words in different languages for the same object or meaning, such as «water» and the German «wasser») to determine how all Indo - European tongues progressed from a common ancestor that existed between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago.
Looking at each individual's genotype, at nearly 800 genetic markers spread across the entire genome, the team determined which markers seemed to be passed down together with the disease from a common ancestor.
They determined it was around 180,000 years ago when the two parental species originally mated, and that both parental species diverged from a common ancestor about 300,000 years ago, making all three very recent birds by Amazon rainforest standards.
Further sampling of basal fungal lineages will be needed to determine whether a Nuclearia - like organism was the cenancestor (most recent common ancestor) of Fungi.
As such, scientists know a last common ancestor of chimps and humans existed, even if we've yet to determine the exact species.
He said he plans to look for MNLPs in other ruminant species, such as sheep and deer, to try to determine whether the sequences he's found so far are related via a common ancestor sequence.