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What does paternally mean?

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Adverb
  1. In a paternal manner; fatherly.
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When you had reached her, you paternally placed your two consecrated hands on her head.
For each hereditary trait, one allele is paternally derived and the other is maternally derived.
The unequal expression in mammals of some maternally and paternally derived genes known as genomic imprinting reduces the masking benefits of diploidy.
Every cell of the human body with a nucleus contains 46 chromosomes divided into 23 pairs, which are inherited both maternally and paternally.
He is taller than me now, and likes to put his arm paternally around my shoulder.
I took a cargo ship on it's way to New Orleans, via Cuba, and 20 days later I was in Washington, received paternally by Dom Crozien.

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