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How To Use male 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.
• Whether this quality be simply a stimulus exciting the egg into animal action, which may be called a vivifying principle, or whether part of it be actually conjoined with the egg is not yet determined, though the latter seems more probable from the frequent resemblance of the fetus to the male parent. The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
• It may be the initial effect; very probably it is; but since the main function of the spermatozoon must be the introduction of germplasm from the male parent, it is too much for anyone to ask us to believe that its _main_ function is concerned with surface alteration. Science and Morals and Other Essays
• In species where both parents share in the care, selection may favor differential investment in sons and daughters by male and female parents.
• The tubular corollas of male parent plants were first sectioned longitudinally, then sections with adnate stamens and corolla portions were removed with a forceps.
• Reef fishes are egg-layers, and the eggs are externally fertilized by the male parent.
• But he did see that his usually tough, self-sufficient male parent was, for once, looking as if he needed bolstering up.
• Reef fishes are egg-layers, and the eggs are externally fertilized by the male parent.
• A second approach to looking for imprinting in C. elegans has been to generate diploid animals in which both copies of a given chromosome are derived from the same parent, from either the male parent or hermaphrodite parent.
• The triploid endosperm nucleus is derived from the fusion of two polar nuclei from the female parent and one sperm nucleus from the male.