distinct lineage

collocation in English

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distinct
adjective
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/dɪˈstɪŋkt/us
/dɪˈstɪŋkt/
clearly noticeable; that ...
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lineage
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈlɪn.i.ɪdʒ/us
/ˈlɪn.i.ɪdʒ/
the members of a person's family who are directly related to that person and who lived a long time before him ...
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(Definition ofdistinctandlineagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is the genus' type species, and indeed seems to represent a quitedistinctlineageof large barbs.
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It is generally agreed that this butterfly represents adistinctlineageand is worthy of recognition at least as subgenus.
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Based on the results thus far obtained, it is likely that further sampling will reveal several genetically distinct lineages.
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Molecular trees show that the transition of unicellular eukaryotes to multicellularity occurred multiple times in distinct lineages.
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Genetic variant analysis clearly discriminates the viruses circulating in these two areas and predicts their association with distinct lineages of this rabies virus strain.
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Their notable differences in size and morphology might in fact agree with distinct lineages.
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Among the traditional magpies, there appear to be two distinct lineages.
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Therefore, it appears that parallel evolution of similar shell morphology occurred between these two distinct lineages of lymnaeid snails.
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A useful tissue culture technique used to clone distinct lineages of cell lines involves the use of cloning rings (cylinders).
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A certain number of these new variants will survive into modern times and be identifiable as distinct lineages.
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The distinct lineages of this radiation are usually kept separate due to non-overlapping ranges and behavioural cues, but are still not fully genetically incompatible.
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The seriemas and bustards represent distinct lineages within neoavian waterbirds.
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It has been estimated that there may be 75 distinct lineages of eukaryotes.
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Today this style is represented by two distinct lineages.
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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).
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