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Definition of xenology in English: xenologynounzɛˈnɒlədʒizeˈnäləjē (chiefly in science fiction) the scientific study of alien biology, cultures, etc. Example sentencesExamples - According to published hypotheses, this distribution might result from vertical inheritance of ancestral genes via speciation, from one or more horizontal transfers (xenology), or from a mixture of both.
- 1 Postmodernism is highlighted by an emphatically interdisciplinary nature: we can be certain that we won't be seeing departments of xenology being set up at universities.
- The proposed approach to terrestrial xenology has the attractive advantage not to require complex and sometimes very artificial scenarios for the early history of the Earth.
- Molecular homologies can reflect the phylogeny of either species or genes and can reveal a complexity of pattern unknown in morphology, with orthology contributing to species phylogenies and paralogy and xenology contributing to gene phylogenies.
- An illustration of xenology due to horizontal gene transfer.
Derivatives noun I am also getting the feeling that the Terran Commonwealth has never met ANY aliens in its expansion, otherwise there'd probably be a huge committee of xenologists already on the scene. Example sentencesExamples - It is believed by some xenologists that Jawas have human origins.
- The original Zarkov seems to be a german scientist, a xenologist, from the 23rd. century.
- Val Endrada is a xenologist living on the advanced planet Capella.
- The first is human, a repressed xenologist named A. A. Zivancevic; the other is Shar, a member of the Laeske species.
- Primatology has heaped up examples of how similar to humans Apes are, to the extent that it seems unlikely now that a xenologist from Rigel 5 could differentiate a human from a chimpanzee.
Origin 1950s: from Greek xenos 'stranger, foreigner', (adjective) 'strange'. Definition of xenology in US English: xenologynounzeˈnäləjē (chiefly in science fiction) the scientific study of alien biology, cultures, etc. Example sentencesExamples - According to published hypotheses, this distribution might result from vertical inheritance of ancestral genes via speciation, from one or more horizontal transfers (xenology), or from a mixture of both.
- An illustration of xenology due to horizontal gene transfer.
- 1 Postmodernism is highlighted by an emphatically interdisciplinary nature: we can be certain that we won't be seeing departments of xenology being set up at universities.
- Molecular homologies can reflect the phylogeny of either species or genes and can reveal a complexity of pattern unknown in morphology, with orthology contributing to species phylogenies and paralogy and xenology contributing to gene phylogenies.
- The proposed approach to terrestrial xenology has the attractive advantage not to require complex and sometimes very artificial scenarios for the early history of the Earth.
Origin 1950s: from Greek xenos ‘stranger, foreigner’, (adjective) ‘strange’. |