ancestral sequence
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ancestral sequence
(in molecular phylogeny) a hypothetical biomolecular sequence reconstructed (using, say, maximum parsimony or maximum likelihood methods) from the relationships between modern sequences.
| anaplerotic metabolic pathway, anaplerosis, anaplasia | |
| anchorage-dependent growth, ancrod, androgen |
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