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Definition of Biparental
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Biparental
1. Having two parents, male and female. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Biparental
Literary usage of Biparental
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Statistical Methods: With Special Reference to Biological Variation by Charles Benedict Davenport (1904)
"In biparental inheritance, if there is no evidence of assortative mating, or
correlation between the two parents in the character in question, ..."
2. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North (1914)
"In a second contribution in collaboration with Lashley (ibid.), Jennings discusses
biparental inheritance and the question of sexuality in ..."
3. The Harvey Lectures by Harvey Society of New York, New York Academy of Medicine (1912)
"But when we have biparental inheritance, a great number of different combinations
of the characteristics of the two parents are produced, ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1896)
"These results are applied to the problems of correlation in local races, of
biparental inheritance, collateral inheritance, morbid inheritance, ..."
5. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1916)
"Some sets show clearly this biparental influence, but in many cases it is impossible
to decide whether the condition is inherited from the mother alone or ..."
6. Organic Evolution by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"... can not be acquired characters, is greater than among the bees, workers, and
queens, produced from fertilized eggs and hence of biparental parentage. ..."
7. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1905)
"If spontaneous variations are not due to the transmission of acquirements, nor
to the direct action of the environment on the germ-plasm, nor to biparental ..."