maternally

Examples

• All

• Consider mitochondria, for example, which are inherited only maternally.

  Academic text (2008)

• The patterns in which contaminants are passed to offspring over a female's lifetime will influence the relative exposure of successive cohorts to maternally derived contaminants.

  Academic text (2008)

• There were no infections among the 11 maternally ascertained sets delivered by caesarean.

  Academic text (1991)

• In most crops, plastids are maternally inherited only and not transmitted via pollen.

  Academic text (2001)

• Timugon also values paternal links more highly than maternal ones, making the paternally related male a rice-giver to a maternally related one.

  Academic text (1993)

• The mouse X chromosome is nonrandomly maternally inactivated in mammary epithelial cells 23.

  Blog text (26)

• Considered a maternally acting, "selfish" gene, it's called the Medea factor—named after the enchantress in Greek mythology who murders her own children for personal gain.

  Academic text (2005)

• A combination of alleles (for different genes) that are located closely together on the same chromosome and that tend to be inherited together; for example, mitochondrial DNA in most animals is maternally inherited.

  Academic text (2011)

• Because mitochondria are inherited only maternally, they can be used to trace maternal lineage.

• In humans, some genetic conditions are passed down maternally, affecting how traits are expressed in offspring.

Synonyms

M

matrilineally

vsmaternally

• Specialized

1 9.3

In a way that follows the mother's family line

focuses instead on immediate inheritance coming directly from the mother

M

matrilaterally

vsmaternally

• Specialized

9.5

In a way that follows the mother's side of the family

emphasizes direct biological origin from the mother rather than family side tracing

Antonyms

P

paternally

1 6.3

In a caring way like a father who gives advice and looks after people

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology