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
But when researchers analyzed the genetic profile of two of the male baby chicks, they noticed something strange: the genetic markers used for parentage determination indicated they couldn’t have had a male parent.
From Slate • Oct. 29, 2021
Four of these chromosomes come from the male parent and four from the female parent.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2018
A child’s totem, and therefore its true kinship, came from the male parent.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
