unrelated individual
collocation in Englishmeaningsofunrelatedandindividual
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unrelated
adjective
uk/ˌʌn.rɪˈleɪ.tɪd/us/ˌʌn.rɪˈleɪ.t̬ɪd/
having ...
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individual
noun[C]
uk/ˌɪn.dɪˈvɪdʒ.u.əl/us/ˌɪn.dəˈvɪdʒ.u.əl/
a single person or thing, especially when compared to the group or set to which ...
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(Definition ofunrelatedandindividualfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofunrelated individual
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When a voles partner dies, it is replaced by anunrelatedindividual.
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There may be an advantage if the request is made through anunrelatedindividual, such as a union official or another member of the community.
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True breeding values of unrelated individuals in the base population (t l 0) were obtained from a normal distribution with mean zero and variance h#.
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With biparental inbreeding, the relatedness between parents and offspring is greater than when mating is between unrelated individuals.
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Frescobaldi showed an increasing interest in composing intricate works out ofunrelatedindividualpieces during his last years of composing.
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Horizontal transmission is between related or unrelated individuals of the same generation.
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However less bias is introduced if incorrectly assigned full-sib pairs are actually true half-sibs (as opposed to unrelated individuals).
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Future re-cloning will require only 0.1gram material per individual, and materials from 20 unrelated individuals for genetic diversity.
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Such qualities were expected to promote closeness between unrelated individuals.
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Families derived from unrelated individuals performed significantly better than families from full-sibs and slightly better than families from half-sibs.
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The current analyses ignored the relatedness of twins by treating all subjects as unrelated individuals.
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Relatedness estimation understandable because typing errors have little effect on the similarity between the multi-locus genotypes of unrelated individuals in expectation.
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The uniqueness of pervasive sharing among humans, especially among unrelated individuals, has led researchers to evaluate numerous hypotheses about the adaptive functions and patterns of sharing in different ecologies.
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Data for families and unrelated individuals combined.
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We cannot say that society is merely a collection of unrelated individuals.
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Parental-care parasitism occurs when individuals raise offspring of other unrelated individuals.
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In family based association mapping instead of multiple unrelated individuals multiple unrelated families or pedigrees are used.
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