uniparental

[yoo-nuh-puh-ren-tl]

adjective

Biology.

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

Other Word Forms

• uniparentally adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of uniparental¹

First recorded in 1895–1900; uni- + parental

Example Sentences

Detailed analyses of uniparental markers, which can reveal sex-specific demographic histories of Log Coffin-associated groups, will be provided in a forthcoming study.

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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.

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

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

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

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