Sentence examples for descent inheritance from inspiring English sources

Descent, inheritance, and succession are matrilineal.

Descent, inheritance, and succession are patrilineal.

Chaga society follows patrilineal rules of descent and inheritance.

Although Muslim, the Minangkabau are matrilineal, tracing descent and inheritance through the female line.

For the past year, I'd spent almost every waking hour in the company of Minangkabau – an Indonesian people known for their Islamic faith and matrilineal traditions (where descent and inheritance are traced along the female line).

This source of genes is called horizontal or lateral transfer to distinguish it from vertical descent, or inheritance from a common ancestor, which is the usual reason for different species to possess similar genes.

A patrilineal system governs the society, where descent and inheritance are traced through the male line and men are generally in control of the distribution of family resources.

This allows inference of identical by descent (IBD) inheritance of a haplotype among a set or subsets of related or unrelated individuals.

For a particular site, these indicators for all the individuals, s j, is commonly referred to as the identity-by-descent (IBD) inheritance path.

Matrilineal descent also governs inheritance, succession, and land tenure.

Polygyny was permitted, and descent, succession, and inheritance followed the male line.