progenitor
单词辨析：
用在谱系或历史书中，强调带有父系或母系嫡系血缘关系，是比祖父母更早的家族成员，无性别之分，女性祖先则常用 ancestress。
His ancestors came from France.
他的先祖来自法国。
My ancestors have lived on this farm for many generations.
我的祖先已在这个农场生活了好几代。
主要用于正式文体或文学作品，较少用于日常生活或历史书中。
Our forefathers were the first to invent gunpowder.
我们的祖先最先发明了火药。
不强调血缘关系，也不带家族或种族色彩，只强调遗传性；还可引申指某种观念等的创始者。
You must do much better than your progenitors.
你一定要比你祖先做得更好。
He is a progenitor of cubism.
他是立体派的创始人。
相关例句：
His laboratory studies the biology of cardiovascular stem and progenitor cells, with a focus on how cell metabolism may direct the differentiation and self-renewal of regenerative cells.
他的实验室研究心血管疾病干细胞和祖细胞生物学并且致力于细胞的新陈代谢可能决定再生细胞的分化与自我更新。
Three Hox genes could be involved in the increased proliferation of the progenitor cells.
在祖细胞增殖能力增强过程中涉及三个Hox基因。
Conclusion HGF gene-modified fetal liver progenitor cell therapy could be a potential therapeutic approach in treatment of liver fibrosis.
结论HGF修饰的胎肝干细胞治疗可能成为肝纤维化潜在的治疗手段。
Role of Notch signaling in differentiation of retinal progenitor cells
Notch信号对视网膜前体细胞分化的作用
Mutagenic Action of Hematopoietic Stem/ Progenitor Cells from Human Umbilical Cord Blood in Nude Mice
人脐血造血干/祖细胞对裸鼠的致突变作用
Research of Differential Inhibition, Autophagy and Transdifferentiation in Glioma Stem/ Progenitor Cells
胶质瘤干祖细胞分化抑制、自噬活性与转分化的研究