In this clade, Fabales were the first lineage to branch off ; thus, the ability to fix nitrogen may be plesiomorphic and subsequently lost in most descendants of the original nitrogen-fixing plant ; however, it may be that the basic genetic and physiological requirements were present in an incipient state in the last common ancestors of all these plants, but only evolved to full function in some of them:

It is unclear whether the biramous condition is a derived state which evolved in crustaceans, or whether the second branch of the limb has been lost in all other groups.

The Teutonic Order lost eastern Prussia when Grand Master Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach converted to Lutheranism and secularized the Prussian branch of the Teutonic Order in 1525.

The epode soon took a firm place in choral poetry, which it lost when that branch of literature declined.

As part of post office consolidation in the early 1970s, it lost its postmaster ( though not its post office ) and was designated a branch of the Westwood post office, sharing the ZIP code 07675.

Both stations ( and the Tayport-Dundee branch line ) closed in 1969, having lost much of their business following the opening of the Tay Road Bridge in 1966.

However, along with other members of the imperial branch families ( shinnōke and ōke ), Prince Higashikuni lost his title and most of his wealth as a result of the American occupation ’ s abolition of the princely houses on 17 October 1947.

* Holstein-Kiel, branch county between 1261 and 1390, partitioned from Holstein, in 1273 Holstein-Segeberg ( first ) was partitioned from Holstein-Kiel, but reverted in 1308, but then lost to Holstein-Pinneberg, Holstein-Plön and Holstein-Rendsburg in 1316 ; Holstein-Kiel acquired Holstein-Plön in 1350, and merged itself into Holstein-Rendsburg

The shortfall arose mainly because the branch lines acted as feeders to the main lines and that feeder traffic was lost when the branches closed.

Both the Latin form ( Comes ) palatinus and the French ( comte ) palatin have been used as part of the full title of Dukes of Burgundy ( a branch of the French royal dynasty ) to render their rare German title Freigraf, which was the style of a ( later lost ) bordering principality, the allodial countship of Burgundy ( Freigrafschaft Burgund in German ) which came to be known as Franche-Comté.

Hence the extent of electricity lost in transmission and the level of congestion on any particular branch of the network will influence the economic dispatch of the generation units.

In 1900, the United States branch of Gramophone lost a patent infringement suit, brought on by Columbia Records and Zonophone, and was no longer permitted to produce records in the USA.

By doing this, one assures that no important premises are lost in the wrong branch.

When several sons of a Duke competed for power, the lands were often divided between them ; when a branch of the family lost power or became extinct, the lands were reallocated among surviving members of the family ; different dukes might also exchange territories.

An important lost link can be seen at Norbury Junction, where a branch ( 1841 ) ran south-west through Newport to connect with the Shrewsbury Canal at Wappenshall Junction.

Because the next line predictor is so inaccurate, and the branch resolution recurrence takes so long, both cores have two-cycle secondary branch predictors which can override the prediction of the next line predictor at the cost of a single lost fetch cycle.

Later, the R4000 used the same trivial " not-taken " branch prediction, and lost two cycles to each taken branch because the branch resolution recurrence was four cycles long.

That same year BoB lost its branch in Narayanjanj ( East Pakistan ) due to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.

Opened as a double-track main line on August 12, 1839, the section from Whitacre to Hampton, known as the Stonebridge Railway, was downgraded to a branch line in 1842 after the opening of the line from Whitacre into Birmingham ; it was singled in 1843 and lost its final passenger service in 1917 as a wartime economy measure.

The Mississauga, a branch of the Ojibwa, were actually the tribe present when the British first colonized the area and were the very first to sign a treaty in what is now Canada with the British government, giving the British access to a one mile strip of land on the western shore of the Niagara to replace the portage they had lost on the eastern shore after the New England colonies separated from British rule.

On April 26, 1998, the Green Line, like the Purple Line and the Douglas branch of the Blue Line lost its 24 hour service due to budget shortfalls and operates only between the hours of 4 a. m. and 1 a. m weekdays.

The suburban branch is thereby credited with a sale which would have been made even if its glass doors had never opened.

The category's original name was Best Art Direction and was changed to its current name for the 85th Academy Awards, with the Art Director's branch being renamed the Designer's branch.

Although most legislation is initiated by the executive branch, the Bundestag considers the legislative function its most important responsibility, concentrating much of its energy on assessing and amending the government's legislative program.

The enhanced assembler's source program was then assembled by its predecessor's executable ( A1 ) into binary or decimal code to give A2, and the cycle repeated ( now with those enhancements available ), until the entire instruction set was coded, branch addresses were automatically calculated, and other conveniences ( such as conditional assembly, macros, optimisations, etc.

In the later twentieth century, however, powerful and general theoretical methods were developed, making combinatorics into an independent branch of mathematics in its own right.

More recent classifications doubt the validity of the Mon-Khmer sub-grouping and place the Khmer language as its own branch of Austro-Asiatic equidistant from the other 12 branches of the family.

Physical cosmology, as a branch of astronomy, is the study of the largest-scale structures and dynamics of the universe and is concerned with fundamental questions about its formation and evolution.

The original companies that spawned Capcom's Japanese branch were I. R. M Corporation founded on May 30, 1979, as well as its subsidiary Japan Capsule Computers Co., Ltd., both of which were devoted to the manufacturing and distribution of electronic game machines.

In the first few years after its establishment, the Japanese branch of Capcom had three development groups referred to as " Planning Rooms ", led by Tokuro Fujiwara, Takashi Nishiyama and Yoshiki Okamoto, respectively.

Cranial nerve number 5 ( CN V ), and its ophthalmic branch ( V < sub > 1 </ sub >) are responsible for the afferent arm of the reflex, and the cranial nerve number 7 ( CN VII ) also known a facial nerve, is responsible for the efferent arm, causing contraction of the muscle orbicularis oculi resulting in closing of the eyes.

( Thomas Sanchez and others thus theorized a doctrine of mental reservation, which developed into its own branch of casuistry.

In flood-time it is said to have a second connection with the Rio Negro by a branch, which it throws off to the westward, called the Itinivini, which leaves it at a point about above its mouth.

The Casiquiare is not a sluggish canal on a flat tableland, but a great, rapid river which, if its upper waters had not found contact with the Orinoco, perhaps by cutting back, would belong entirely to the Negro branch of the Amazon.

In 1728, the Carbognano branch ( Colonna di Sciarra ) of the Colonna family added the name Barberini to its family name when Giulio Cesare Colonna di Sciarra married Cornelia Barberini, daughter of the last male Barberini to hold the name and grand-daughter of Maffeo Barberini ( son of Taddeo Barberini ).

A clade ( from Ancient Greek, klados, " branch ") or monophylum ( see monophyletic ) is a group consisting of an ancestor and all its descendants, a single " branch " on the " tree of life ".

* A scientific field ( a branch of science ) – widely-recognized category of specialized expertise within science, and typically embodies its own terminology and nomenclature.

In calculus, a branch of mathematics, the derivative is a measure of how a function changes as its input changes.

However, if any democracy is not structured so as to prohibit the government from excluding the people from the legislative process, or any branch of government from altering the separation of powers in its own favor, then a branch of the system can accumulate too much power and destroy the democracy.

The study of distributed computing became its own branch of computer science in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Endocrinology ( from Greek, endo, " within ";, krīnō, " to separate "; and ,-logia ) is a branch of biology and medicine dealing with the endocrine system, its diseases, and its specific secretions called hormones, the integration of developmental events such as proliferation, growth, and differentiation ( including histogenesis and organogenesis ) and the coordination of metabolism, respiration, excretion, movement, reproduction, and sensory perception depend on chemical cues, substances synthesized and secreted by specialized cells.