paternally

paternal | American Dictionary

paternal
adjective
us/pəˈtɜr·nəl/
behaving or feeling as a father does toward his child:
His father gave him a good-humored, paternal smile.
Paternal also means related by way of the father:
paternal grandparents

Examples of paternal

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Again, in this application the theory simplifies because of lack of a paternal genetic effect on the fruits (tomatoes are almost purely maternal tissue).
Determining the paternal antigen status through a peripheral blood assay is an important step, which should be undertaken early in the pregnancy.
Paternal recognition was important for the child in many ways.
A different picture emerged using the self-report measures where significant differences were seen in all dimensions except paternal authoritarianism.
In the 1-cell embryos after nuclear envelope breakdown, the paternal genome was completely separated from the maternal genome.
During transmission of genetic material from one generation to the next, corresponding sections of maternal and paternal chromosome copies are sometimes exchanged (genetic recombination).
Moreover, much higher estimates of the familial component of longevity for daughters are observed when the data are controlled for paternal age at reproduction.
Major depression in offspring showed not only the well-known association with maternal depression, but also with paternal depression, which has received little previous study.
There were twice as many significant relationships which came from the maternal side as from the paternal side of the family.
In cluster 3, the affected twin reported less paternal warmth and much higher levels of maternal authoritarianism than her unaffected twin.
In line with this also is that paternal disorders were weakly correlated with maternal disorders.
That is, maternal information may be designed to inform maternally related kin or suppress misleading information provided by paternal genes.
The maternal uncle might come and take the nephew out of his paternal household.
If the two pronuclei, taken from fertilised eggs and transferred into an enucleated egg, are only maternal or only paternal, normal development does not occur.
The fetal inheritance of autosomal dominant paternal mutations could also be assessed.
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