uniparental
- adjective
- Specialized
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uniparental
- Cosmides and Tooby (1981) suggested that uniparental transmission is the result of "intragenomic conflict" between organelle genomes of maternal and paternal origin.
- uniparental inheritance
- uniparental reproduction
Examples
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If both come from Mom, it's called uniparental disomy, in the unlikely event anyone cares, the kid gets Prader-Willi syndrome and he's retarded and fat.
Fiction book (1997) -
The results were highly consistent with our predictions in showing that evolutionary shifts toward precocial young are likely to have preceded changes toward uniparental care (Figure 4b).
Academic text (2006) -
(b) Directional evolution of shorebird chick development from semiprecocial (fed by parents) to precocial (self-feeding) and of parental care from full (biparental) to reduced (uniparental).
Academic text (2006) -
Research shows that children with uniparental inheritance may exhibit different traits than those with genetic contributions from both parents.
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The scientist explained how uniparental gene expression can lead to unique characteristics in organisms.
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In biology, uniparental reproduction is a fascinating process that involves only one parent's genetic material.
Synonyms
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Family line traced through only the mother or the father
Antonyms
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Etymology
The word uniparental is made of the prefix uni- meaning 'one', as in unicycle or unique, and parental from 'parent' meaning 'mother' or 'father'. So, uniparental describes something that comes from only one parent.