There may be a fault in the electrical system.
We reviewed the internal lines of communication.
lineage; ancestry; family line
Used for descent or a line of ancestry; often appears with expressions like 系統を引く, meaning to come from or inherit a particular line.
He descends from an old samurai family line.
group; family; school; affiliation
Classifies things or people into a related family, category, party, or school of thought. Common with colors, languages, academic traditions, political tendencies, and similar groupings.
If you use colors from the same family, the room will feel unified.
This idea belongs to the liberal school of thought.
evolutionary relationship; phylogenetic closeness
Biological use for how closely organisms or species are related in evolutionary lineage.
These two species are closely related evolutionarily.
genetic lineage; strain; population with a common ancestor
Technical genetics and microbiology use for a strain or population sharing a common ancestor, such as a mouse strain, bacterial strain, or viral lineage.
We conducted the experiment using mice of the same strain.
We analyzed the DNA to examine the strain of this bacterium.
She comes from a line of painters.
This language belongs to the Uralic family.
The electrical system malfunctioned, causing a blackout.
We can trace the evolutionary lineage from this fossil.
phylogenetic tree; evolutionary tree; dendrogram