male parent
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"In most sea spiders, the male parent takes care of the babies by carrying them around while they develop," UH Manoa School of Life Sciences Professor and lead researcher Amy Moran said.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 18, 2024
Previously, scientists have generated young mice and frogs with no genetic input from a male parent.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 1, 2023
At fertilization, the male parent contributes one member of each homologous pair to the offspring, and the female parent contributes the other.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
"It is about family relationships and the tyranny of a male parent who ruins his sons' and his daughter's lives with his determination to rise to a better class," Miller said.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 2, 2013
He stood back often to study the results of his gnawing, and at last felt he had captured the proud, stern, aloof, strong, honest look of his male parent.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
