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单词 progenitor
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Definition of progenitor in English:

progenitor

noun prə(ʊ)ˈdʒɛnɪtəproʊˈdʒɛnədər
  • 1A person or thing from which a person, animal, or plant is descended or originates; an ancestor or parent.

    (人,动物,植物)祖先

    his children were the progenitors of many of Scotland's noble families

    他的子女是苏格兰许多显赫贵族家庭的祖先。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • More significantly, this less-than-proportional increase in genome size in a polyploid species expected from the addition of its diploid progenitors appeared to be a widespread phenomenon in flowering plants.
    • Note that copy numbers in tetraploids were slightly less than double those in respective diploid progenitors.
    • 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.
    • The domestication of plants from their wild progenitors has led to the production of a wide variety of crops that share a number of traits.
    • The radon gas will then also decay into radioactive solid particles, called radon daughters or radon progenitors.
    • The comparison of newly formed polyploids with their haploid progenitors has revealed that nascent polyploids have a defect in stationary-phase viability.
    • Boxes represent extant groups and their ancestral progenitors.
    • These lines were derived as recombinants from the same progenitor, and their right ends are very likely the same.
    • Wolfe offers an updated understanding of fraternities as social lockboxes far removed from their bawdy Animal House progenitors.
    • There is, however, evidence of genome downsizing in polyploids relative to their diploid progenitors in some cases.
    • Currently, six major tetraploid races are recognized and their diploid progenitors have been identified.
    • Single-spore isolates were paired with their respective compatible mating types from the progenitor to establish progeny dikaryons.
    • The progenitor of the mutant allele was assumed to be the parental allele that was closest in size to the mutant allele.
    • For example, the unicellular progenitors of plants underwent an important evolutionary step following the establishment of a second endosymbiotic relationship, resulting in the evolution of the plastid.
    • We examined the segments of repeats of 16 strains, each descended from different wild progenitors.
    • Indeed, some genes originating from different progenitors are expressed in specific tissues or at different developmental stages, as demonstrated in cotton.
    • We also wished to explore patterns of gene evolution in polyploid cotton, using as a comparative framework orthologs from the diploid progenitors.
    • The result is premature apoptosis (programmed cell death) of progenitors and failure of stem cells to mature and differentiate.
    • The person who donates DNA from a somatic cell is the progenitor, in that the child carries that person's DNA.
    • The results from these studies are generally consistent with theoretical expectations of higher genetic diversity in tetraploids than their diploid progenitors.
    Synonyms
    ancestor, forefather, forebear, parent
    archaic begetter
    rare primogenitor, procreator, stirps
    1. 1.1 A person who originates a cultural or intellectual movement.
      (艺术,政治,学术活动的)创始人,先驱
      the progenitor of modern jazz

      现代爵士乐的始祖。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • That defiant self-contempt defines the Velvet's status as the first post-modern band and the progenitor of the entire punk/new wave movement.
      • The record, and the subsequent Live Aid concerts, yoked the two men together as blood-oath crusaders against the famine in Ethiopia, the progenitors of popular culture's most decisive intervention into global politics.
      • Debussy stands with Mussorgsky, Mahler, Reger, and Strauss among the great progenitors of Modernism.
      • Both international law and domestic legal norms in the Christian world had roots in an accepted morality and in natural law, and had common intellectual progenitors (including Grotius, Locke, Vattel).
      • Coase is the progenitor of the modern theory of the firm.
      • Instead, she bestows a life and a self on modernity that seems to be independent of politics or its intellectual progenitors, and can therefore be whatever the author wants.
      • This concern is evidenced by the very designation of the movement as Realism-a name significantly awarded by its own progenitors rather than by literary historians.
      • He is that eminent Victorian Charles Darwin, the progenitor of the theory of evolution.
      Synonyms
      originator, founder, instigator, source
      forerunner, predecessor, precursor, antecedent

Derivatives

  • progenitorial

  • adjective prə(ʊ)dʒɛnɪˈtɔːrɪəl
  • progenitorship

  • noun

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French progeniteur, from Latin progenitor, from progenit- 'begotten', from the verb progignere, from pro- 'forward' + gignere 'beget'.

Rhymes

primogenitor, senator

Definition of progenitor in US English:

progenitor

nounprōˈjenədərproʊˈdʒɛnədər
  • 1A person or thing from which a person, animal, or plant is descended or originates; an ancestor or parent.

    (人,动物,植物)祖先

    his sons and daughters were the progenitors of many of Scotland's leading noble families

    他的子女是苏格兰许多显赫贵族家庭的祖先。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Single-spore isolates were paired with their respective compatible mating types from the progenitor to establish progeny dikaryons.
    • We also wished to explore patterns of gene evolution in polyploid cotton, using as a comparative framework orthologs from the diploid progenitors.
    • The comparison of newly formed polyploids with their haploid progenitors has revealed that nascent polyploids have a defect in stationary-phase viability.
    • 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.
    • For example, the unicellular progenitors of plants underwent an important evolutionary step following the establishment of a second endosymbiotic relationship, resulting in the evolution of the plastid.
    • More significantly, this less-than-proportional increase in genome size in a polyploid species expected from the addition of its diploid progenitors appeared to be a widespread phenomenon in flowering plants.
    • Boxes represent extant groups and their ancestral progenitors.
    • There is, however, evidence of genome downsizing in polyploids relative to their diploid progenitors in some cases.
    • The domestication of plants from their wild progenitors has led to the production of a wide variety of crops that share a number of traits.
    • Note that copy numbers in tetraploids were slightly less than double those in respective diploid progenitors.
    • We examined the segments of repeats of 16 strains, each descended from different wild progenitors.
    • The person who donates DNA from a somatic cell is the progenitor, in that the child carries that person's DNA.
    • Indeed, some genes originating from different progenitors are expressed in specific tissues or at different developmental stages, as demonstrated in cotton.
    • The radon gas will then also decay into radioactive solid particles, called radon daughters or radon progenitors.
    • The result is premature apoptosis (programmed cell death) of progenitors and failure of stem cells to mature and differentiate.
    • Currently, six major tetraploid races are recognized and their diploid progenitors have been identified.
    • Wolfe offers an updated understanding of fraternities as social lockboxes far removed from their bawdy Animal House progenitors.
    • These lines were derived as recombinants from the same progenitor, and their right ends are very likely the same.
    • The results from these studies are generally consistent with theoretical expectations of higher genetic diversity in tetraploids than their diploid progenitors.
    • The progenitor of the mutant allele was assumed to be the parental allele that was closest in size to the mutant allele.
    Synonyms
    ancestor, forefather, forebear, parent
    1. 1.1 A person who originates an artistic, political, or intellectual movement.
      (艺术,政治,学术活动的)创始人,先驱
      the progenitor of modern jazz

      现代爵士乐的始祖。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Debussy stands with Mussorgsky, Mahler, Reger, and Strauss among the great progenitors of Modernism.
      • Both international law and domestic legal norms in the Christian world had roots in an accepted morality and in natural law, and had common intellectual progenitors (including Grotius, Locke, Vattel).
      • This concern is evidenced by the very designation of the movement as Realism-a name significantly awarded by its own progenitors rather than by literary historians.
      • The record, and the subsequent Live Aid concerts, yoked the two men together as blood-oath crusaders against the famine in Ethiopia, the progenitors of popular culture's most decisive intervention into global politics.
      • He is that eminent Victorian Charles Darwin, the progenitor of the theory of evolution.
      • Coase is the progenitor of the modern theory of the firm.
      • Instead, she bestows a life and a self on modernity that seems to be independent of politics or its intellectual progenitors, and can therefore be whatever the author wants.
      • That defiant self-contempt defines the Velvet's status as the first post-modern band and the progenitor of the entire punk/new wave movement.
      Synonyms
      originator, founder, instigator, source

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French progeniteur, from Latin progenitor, from progenit- ‘begotten’, from the verb progignere, from pro- ‘forward’ + gignere ‘beget’.

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