thread of life
nounDefinitions
A metaphor for a person’s lifespan, as generated by Clotho, measured out by Lachesis, and…
A metaphor for a person’s lifespan, as generated by Clotho, measured out by Lachesis, and terminated by Atropos.
DNA.
- His book also tells of the intense competition between various research workers and groups during the years in which the secrets of "the spiral thread of life" were finally unravelled.
- For this reason DNA has been termed the thread of life; the progressive elucidation of its structure and function have rightly been biology's central preoccupation since 1950.
The link of inheritance from past to present.
- DOWN the unimaginable corridors of geologic time the thread of life has passed from generation to generation, ever varying but unbroken.
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Destiny, fate.
- Argo, their thred of life is ſpun.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
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