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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or derived from two parents.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Amphigonic; pertaining to or derived from two parents.

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  • adjective Having two parents, one of either sex

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Examples

  • Once the hybrid is formed then, and only then, can Mendelian sexual reproduction produce the new species by standard biparental reproduction.

    Behe, Common Descent, & UD 2009

  • Roy Grinker and John Spiegel came to a similar conclusion, noting that "a gratified, happy childhood with biparental influences contributes a reserve strength on which a man may draw in times of danger."

    Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II 2008

  • That notion identifies heritability with the regression of the offspring phenotype on the parental (or biparental mean in the case of sexual reproduction), where both phenotypes are presented as z-scores (i.e., set to mean = 0 and standard deviation = 1).

    Miss Winter Solstice Scott A. Nicholson 2009

  • I've got to write a paper in the next few weeks about this guy, who I'm interested in because of the following: Maupertuis' Systeme de la nature 1751 contained theoretical speculations on the nature of biparental heredity based on his careful study of the occurrences of polydactyly, or extra fingers, in several generations of a Berlin family.

    Archive 2005-03-01 Jenny Davidson 2005

  • I've got to write a paper in the next few weeks about this guy, who I'm interested in because of the following: Maupertuis' Systeme de la nature 1751 contained theoretical speculations on the nature of biparental heredity based on his careful study of the occurrences of polydactyly, or extra fingers, in several generations of a Berlin family.

    I've got to write Jenny Davidson 2005

  • This is, to say the least, an unusual practice in nature: among mammals, only 5 percent show this sort of monogamous, biparental behavior.

    Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004

  • This is, to say the least, an unusual practice in nature: among mammals, only 5 percent show this sort of monogamous, biparental behavior.

    Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004

  • This is, to say the least, an unusual practice in nature: among mammals, only 5 percent show this sort of monogamous, biparental behavior.

    Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004

  • This is, to say the least, an unusual practice in nature: among mammals, only 5 percent show this sort of monogamous, biparental behavior.

    Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004

  • The harsh environment hypothesis, therefore, predicts that the warmest nests will not only show evidence of more biparental care but that the two parents will take turns more often throughout the day.

    Boing Boing Maggie Koerth-Baker 2011

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