relatedness
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The notion of genetic relatedness — IVF kind of broke that.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2024
Although there is no specific vaccine against monkeypox, the smallpox vaccine protects eight out of ten people from monkeypox infection due to the antigenic relatedness between the two viruses.
From Science Daily • Jan. 12, 2024
Perhaps chastened by past criticisms, geneticists are now quick to concede that biological relatedness is only one element of kinship.
From Science Magazine • Oct. 4, 2023
Over hundreds of millions of years, gene sequences mutate so much that any signal about the relatedness of different lineages is washed out.
From Scientific American • May 17, 2023
How then should we understand the biological relatedness of Sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans?
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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