Maternal
The attribute maternal ( latin Maternushaus "maternal, the nut") describes the genetics , the inheritance on the nut side lineage , for example, the maternal expression of a gene or the maternal origin of the state form of a gene ( allele ). The attribute paternal describes the biological origin from the father's side.
In contrast to this, matrilinear in the social sciences denotes the limitation of a person's family origin to their maternal side: “(only) in the line of the mother” (maternal line).
See also
- Genetrix (organic producer)
- Parental generation (starting group of a lineage)
- Biological inheritance (process of inheriting a genetic trait)
- Relationship coefficient (proximity of the biological relationship between two living beings)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lexicon of Biology: maternal inheritance . In: Spektrum.de . 1999, accessed November 1, 2018.