relatedness
Example Sentences
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To establish relatedness, scientists measured how much DNA individuals shared.
From Science Daily • Feb. 19, 2026
The notion of genetic relatedness — IVF kind of broke that.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
