0 the parent or direct ancestor of a person, animal, or plant:
In 2000, it was shown that a sample of 250 men with the name Sykes shared the same progenitor.
Domestic cats can be traced to wild progenitors that interbred well over 100,000 years ago.
John Egan is one of the progenitors of the modern extreme skiing movement.
This 1967 film is the progenitor of countless true-crime films.
He considers that, by and large, it was successful in accomplishing what its progenitors wanted it to accomplish.
However, only little is known about the mechanisms which stimulate radial glia-like progenitors at this early stage of the neurogenic response following cortical infarcts.
Most current models could equally accommodate the markers as representing quiescent stem cells, activated stem cells or even lineage-committed progenitor cells.
An interesting observation is that defects in the maintenance of the progenitor pool are often associated with disruption of adherens junctions between neural stem cells.
