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unipaˈrental, a. Biol.
[uni- 1.]
Of, pertaining to, or derived from, one parent.
1900K. Pearson Grammar of Sci. (ed. 2) xi. 469 The algebraical discussion of this problem..involves no further assumptions than those already made for uniparental inheritance. 1963E. Mayr Animal Species & Evolution ii. 27 Clandestine sexuality appears to be rather common among so-called asexual organisms. The expression ‘uniparental reproduction’ is being used increasingly, instead of ‘asexual reproduction’, to overcome this and other difficulties. 1975Nature 29 May 401/2 This indicates that streptomycin resistance was transmitted in a non-Mendelian, uniparental way [in tobacco hybrids].
Add: Hence unipaˈrentally adv.
1961in Webster. 1977Molecular & Gen. Genetics CL. 109/1 The biparental transmission of these two non-Mendelian dk mutations..is distinct from the uniparentally inherited chloroplast mutations of this alga. |