Paternal
The attribute paternal ( latin paternus "paternal, the Father") describes the genetics , the inheritance on the father side lineage , for example, the paternal expression of a gene or the paternal origin of the state form of a gene ( allele ). The maternal attribute describes the biological origin from the mother's side.
In contrast to this, patrilinear in the social sciences denotes the limitation of a person's family origin to their paternal side: “(only) in the line of the father” (paternal line).
See also
- Genitor (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: Paternal Heredity . In: Spektrum.de . 1999, accessed November 1, 2018.