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Maternally meaning
In a maternal manner; motherly, as a mother.
Synonyms of Maternally
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Kjetil Tronvoll, Ethiopia, a new start?, (Minority Rights Group: 2000) Haile Selassie's mother was paternally of Oromo descent and maternally of Gurage heritage, while his father was paternally Oromo and maternally Amhara.
Julia Cable, national coordinator for the British Divers Marine Life Rescue, said the whale had injuries consistent with live stranding, was in good nutritional condition but possibly still maternally dependent.
DIRAS3 (NOEY2 or ARH1) DIRAS3 is a paternally expressed and maternally imprinted gene located on chromosome 1 in humans.
In some insect groups, these endosymbionts live in specialized insect cells called bacteriocytes (also called mycetocytes), and are maternally-transmitted, i.e. the mother transmits her endosymbionts to her offspring.
Maternally, Agrippina descended directly from Augustus.
Of the 46 chromosomes in a normal diploid human cell, half are maternally derived (from the mother's egg ) and half are paternally derived (from the father's sperm ).
Parthenogenetic/gynogenetic embryos have twice the normal expression level of maternally derived genes, and lack expression of paternally expressed genes, while the reverse is true for androgenetic embryos.
She was a first cousin maternally and a second cousin paternally. citation In 1933, they emigrated to the United States.