uniparental

American  

[yoo-nuh-puh-ren-tl] / ˌyu nə pəˈrɛn tl /

adjective

Biology.

1. having one parent, as an organism produced by parthenogenesis.

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Other Word Forms

• uniparentally adverb

Etymology

Origin of uniparental

First recorded in 1895–1900; uni- + parental

Example Sentences

The question of whether we can meaningfully set parameters on African American diversity took on a genetic focus with the rise in direct-to-consumer genetic testing and interpretations based on limited uniparental markers.

From Nature

UPD, uniparental disomy; ND, no material available for conclusive molecular subgroup assignment.

From Nature

UPD, uniparental disomy; ND, no material available for conclusive molecular subgroup assignment.

From Nature

Yet these ‘uniparental markers’, which chart an unbroken chain back through either the maternal or paternal line, are rarely unique to a population.

From Nature

A mostly female population, or what the researchers described as a "uniparental solution" - such as self-fertilising hermaphrodites - help counterbalance this genetic disadvantage by "maximising the reproductive capacity of the individual worms", Professor Shakes said.

From BBC