female parent

NOUN
  1. a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
    the mother of three children

How To Use female parent In A Sentence

  • The hybrid plants, used as the female parents, were back-crossed with H. polyrhizus and S. megalanthus, crossed with the diploid H. undatus, or selfed.
  • In species where both parents share in the care, selection may favor differential investment in sons and daughters by male and female parents.
  • The triploid endosperm nucleus is derived from the fusion of two polar nuclei from the female parent and one sperm nucleus from the male.
  • Enclosing bumblebees permits us to control the pollen parent, as well as the female parent.
  • In these bigeners the result generally resembled the female parent almost entirely.
  • The new sugarcane variety YT00-236 was bred from female parent YN73-204 and male parent CP72-1210 by Zhanjiang Sugarcane Research Center of Guangzhou Sugarcane Industry Research Institute.
  • In order to study the inheritance of cytomixis, the cytomictic plants were selfed and crossed as both male and female parents with one of the five control plants under controlled conditions.
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