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two and ancestral
The earliest record of a settlement at Ajaccio having a name ancestral to its name is the exhortation in Epistle 77 written in 601 CE of Gregory the great to the Defensor Boniface, one of two known rectors of the early Corsican church, not to leave Aleria and Adjacium without bishops.
In green plants, chloroplasts are surrounded by two lipid-bilayer membranes that are thought to correspond to the outer and inner membranes of the ancestral cyanobacterium.
It was expected that dating the split of the ancestral human louse into two species, the head louse and the pubic louse, would date the loss of body hair in human ancestors.
The primary result of the Cadell Fault is that the west-flowing water of the Murray River strikes the north-south running fault and diverts both north and south around the fault in the two main channels ( Edward and ancestral Goulburn ) as well as a fan of small streams, and regularly floods a large amount of low-lying country in the area.
Sympatric speciation refers to the formation of two or more descendant species from a single ancestral species all occupying the same geographic location.
In Yemen, however, rather than abandoning the Aramaic targum during the public reading of the Torah, it was supplemented by a third version, namely the translation of the Torah into Arabic by Saadia Gaon ( called the Tafsir, though this Gaon was born in prominently Jewish at the time Sura Iraq, Babylon, moved to Egypt, arguably lead those two communities, and died in Jaffa ancestral Israel, he was not known to have ever been to the Jewish villages of Yemen.
Turtles are divided into two groups, according to how they evolved a solution to the problem of withdrawing their necks into their shells ( something the ancestral Proganochelys could not do ): the Cryptodira, which can draw their necks in while contracting it under their spine ; and the Pleurodira, which contract their necks to the side.
This hypothesized ancestral group likely split into two branches around.
At least two Apache warriors, Massai and Gray Lizard, escaped from their prison car and made their way back to Arizona in a journey to their ancestral lands.
The ancestral insect species had two pairs of wings ( like dragonflies and most other flying insect species have ).
This hypothesized ancestral group likely split into two branches around 54 million years ago.
The two main types of homoplasy are convergence ( appearance of the same character in at least two distinct lineages ) and reversion ( the return to an ancestral character ).
In ancient times two types of surnames, ancestral names () and clan names (), existed.
Sampras won his first two events on tour, defeating Todd Martin in both finals ( one of which included Sampras's first trip to his ancestral homeland, Greece ).
Benjamin Harrison IV built on the estate what is believed to be the oldest three-story brick mansion in Virginia and is the ancestral home to two Presidents of the United States: William Henry Harrison, his grandson, and Benjamin Harrison his great-great-grandson.
Berkeley would later earn a distinction shared only with Peacefield in Quincy, Massachusetts as the ancestral home for two United States Presidents.
One can see from the ancestral chart below that two of his great-grandparents were brother and sister ( John Beaufort and Joan Beaufort ).
The racial and ethnic makeup of the population was 72. 2 % non-Hispanic white, 7. 2 % black or African American, 0. 4 % Native American, 1. 6 % Asian Indian, 0. 6 % Asians with ancestral origin elsewhere in Asia, 0. 4 % non-Hispanic reporting some other race, 3. 0 % two or more races and 16. 1 % Hispanic or Latino.
The second tells of two tribes of ancestral spirits who were invited to a feast, but were distracted by the beautiful Sleepy Lizard Women and did not show up.
Human chromosome 2 is now known to be a result of an end-to-end fusion of two ancestral ape chromosomes.
It appears that after the ancestral magpie spread over Eurasia, the Korean population became isolated, at which point the species crossed the Bering Land Bridge and colonized North America, where the two American magpies then differentiated.
The differences between the two groups are due to their separate ancestral origins.
In spite of their age, it is not thought that the two specie are ancestral to the Secretarybird.

two and ape
In two years of acrimonious public dispute that Charles Kingsley satirised as the " Great Hippocampus Question " and parodied in The Water-Babies as the " great hippopotamus test ", Huxley showed that Owen was incorrect in asserting that ape brains lacked a structure present in human brains.
The bonobo ( or ), Pan paniscus, previously called the pygmy chimpanzee and less often, the dwarf or gracile chimpanzee, is a great ape and one of the two species making up the genus Pan ; the other is Pan troglodytes, or the common chimpanzee.
Anthurium and Zantedeschia are two well-known members of this family, as are Colocasia esculenta ( taro ) and Xanthosoma roseum ( elephant ear or ‘ ape ).
Chimpanzee, sometimes colloquially chimp, is the common name for the two extant species of ape in the genus Pan.
Now on a quest to get their ape back and to clear their names, the two once again embark to Hollywood.
The term " ape " was then used in two different senses, as shown in the 1910 Encyclopædia Britannica entry.
In 2000, two photographs of an alleged ape, said to be the Skunk Ape, were taken anonymously and mailed to the Sarasota Sheriff's Department in Florida.
Meanwhile, Armando is being interrogated by Inspector Kolp ( Severn Darden ), who suspects his " circus ape " is the child of the two talking apes from the future.
" The two despise each other almost on sight ; the spoiled, aristocratic Blanche openly looks down upon Stanley, whom she derides as an " ape ", and she often calls him a Polack, while Stanley is enraged at what he sees as a constant reminder that he is not good enough for Stella.
The hero and ape later became two of Nintendo's most popular characters.
The difference between them, he claimed are greater than those between two species of ape ; and this proves that Negroes are a separate species from the Whites.
More recently, two other hominid ancestors have been discovered there: a 10 million year-old ape called Chororapithecus abyssinicus, found in the Afar rift, in eastern Ethiopia, and the Nakalipithecus nakayamai, which is also 10 million years old.
The difference between them, he claimed are greater than those between two species of ape ; and this proves that Negroes are a separate species from the Whites.

two and chromosomes
Most multicellular organisms have two sets of chromosomes, that is, they are diploid.
The allosome pair consists of two X chromosomes ( female ) or one X and one Y chromosome ( male ).
Thus, ocular albinism occurs more frequently in males as they have a single X and Y chromosome, unlike females, whose genetics are characterized by two X chromosomes.
Some of these are challenging to sequence because they have more than two haploid ( n ) sets of chromosomes, a condition known as polyploidy, common in the plant kingdom.
Unduplicated chromosomes are single linear strands, whereas duplicated chromosomes contain two identical copies ( called chromatids ) joined by a centromere.
His two principles were the continuity of chromosomes and the individuality of chromosomes.
The layout of this is not, however, well characterised apart from the compaction of one of the two X chromosomes in mammalian females into the Barr body.
M phase is itself composed of two tightly coupled processes: mitosis, in which the cell's chromosomes are divided between the two sister cells, and cytokinesis, in which the cell's cytoplasm divides in half forming distinct cells.
In some cases, a metacentric chromosome is formed by balanced translocation: the fusion of two acrocentric chromosomes to form one metacentric chromosome.
New World cats ( those in Central and South America ) have a haploid number of 18, possibly due to the combination of two smaller chromosomes into one larger chromosome.
In humans, an ovum can carry only an X chromosome ( of the X and Y chromosomes ), whereas a sperm may carry either an X or a Y ; thus the male sperm determines the sex of any resulting zygote, if the zygote has two X chromosomes it will develop into a female, if it has an X and a Y chromosome, it will develop into a male.
Because the sporophyte is the product of the fusion of two haploid gametes, its cells are diploid, containing two sets of chromosomes.
Fertilized eggs get two sets of chromosomes ( one from each parent's respective gametes ), and so develop into diploid females, while unfertilized eggs only contain one set ( from the mother ), and so develop into haploid males ; the act of fertilization is under the voluntary control of the egg-laying female.
When a female Komodo dragon ( with ZW sex chromosomes ) reproduces in this manner, she provides her progeny with only one chromosome from each of her pairs of chromosomes, including only one of her two sex chromosomes.
* the chromosomes in meiosis undergo a recombination which shuffles the genes producing a different genetic combination in each gamete, compared with the co-existence of each of the two separate pairs of each chromosome ( one received from each parent ) in each cell which results from mitosis.
Prior to the meiosis process the cell's chromosomes are duplicated by a round of DNA replication, creating from the maternal and paternal versions of each chromosome ( homologs ) two exact copies, sister chromatids, attached at the centromere region.
As the chromosomes move away from the center the cell divides into two daughter cells, each containing a haploid number of chromosomes composed of two chromatids.

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