ancestry
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To investigate more broadly, the researchers analyzed the genomes of nearly 200 mice bred from eight different parental strains, including some with wild ancestry.
From Science Daily
Other works included The Real Thing, The Coast of Utopia, and his final play, Leopoldstadt, which drew on his Jewish ancestry.
From BBC
DNA analysis of two canid bones confirmed the animals were wolves rather than early dogs, with no signs of dog ancestry.
From Science Daily
The boxer's family is well known in the town and traces its ancestry there across several generations.
From BBC
In so doing, we may one day generate forests of trees whose ancestry does not intermingle with that of the species generated by the historic evolutionary process.
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