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UNILINEAIRE [7 records]

Record 1 2024-08-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insects, Centipedes, Spiders, and Scorpions
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

An insect of the family Anthomyiidae.

Key term(s)
  • one-lined root maggot fly

French

Domaine(s)
  • Insectes, mille-pattes, araignées et scorpions
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

Insecte de la famille des Anthomyiidae.

Spanish

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Record 2 2005-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Status of Persons (Private Law)
  • Family Law (common law)
  • Anthropology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Statut des personnes (Droit privé)
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
  • Anthropologie
CONT

Filiation unilinéaire : matrilinéaire ou patrilinéaire.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Estado de las personas (Derecho privado)
  • Derecho de familia (common law)
  • Antropología
DEF

Dícese de la filiación que proviene de una sola línea: matrilineal o patrilineal.

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Record 3 2003-06-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Genetics
DEF

Transduction where the transduced DNA is not integrated in the host chromosome and is unable to replicate. The transmission of the transduced DNA is unilinear.

CONT

... abortive transduction is valuable in providing new information about the nature of the transduction process, since the frequency of its occurrence indicates that of transfer of the marker, in contrast with the frequency of complete transduction which betokens integration only.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Génétique
DEF

Introduction dans une bactérie par un vecteur de transduction d’un exogénote qui ne s’intègre pas dans le chromosome et ne se réplique pas.

CONT

Lors de la transduction généralisée abortive, la transmission du fragment chromonémien de la bactérie donneuse est unilinéaire.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Genética
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Record 4 2002-09-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Anthropology
DEF

A consanguineal kin group resulting from unilinear [(either patrilineal or matrilineal) descent]. It consists of members with a common relation in the prevalent line of descent.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Anthropologie
DEF

Groupe formé par les individus qui se réclament d’un ancêtre commun en vertu d’une règle de filiation unilinéaire.

CONT

Les membres du lignage sont capables d’établir leur relation généalogique avec l’ancêtre fondateur.

Spanish

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Record 5 1991-04-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Political Science
DEF

Or following a single, consistent path of development or progression.

CONT

an unilinear social evolution.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sciences politiques
CONT

Le processus résultant de ce conflit(...) n’ a rien d’unilinéaire.

Spanish

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Record 6 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Anthropology
OBS

unilinear: referring to succession, descent or inheritance measured through the father's or the mother's line alone. The term unilateral is also found.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Anthropologie
DEF

Mode de filiation [selon lequel] les sociétés qui ont ce régime ne reconnaissent qu’une seule ligne, paternelle ou maternelle, sans permettre à l’individu de choisir celle à laquelle il se rattache.

Spanish

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Record 7 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Anthropology
DEF

A generally exogamous unilinear subdivision of a tribe, itself often divided into sibs ...

CONT

A phratry is usually a union of two clans

French

Domaine(s)
  • Anthropologie
DEF

Groupe formé de la réunion de plusieurs clans et dont les membres se considèrent comme liés les une aux autres par une règle de filiation unilinéaire.

Spanish

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