adjective. Relating to or based on relationship to the father or descent through the male line: in Polynesia inheritance of land was predominantly patrilineal. More example sentences. 1  Polygyny is prevalent and even in groups without traditional patrilineal descent, Islam has strengthened male control of women.elating to or based on relationship to the father or descent through the male line: in Polynesia inheritance of land was predominantly patrilineal.
The cell nucleus is a membrane bound structure that contains the cell's hereditary information and controls the cell's growth and reproduction. It is the command center of a eukaryotic cell and is commonly the most prominent organelle in a cell.
The nucleus is a highly organized structure. However, unlike cytoplasmic organelles, nuclear substructures are not bounded by membranes, but rather are held together by interactions between their component proteins and nucleic acids, and are thus probably best regarded as giant, extended multimolecular complexes.ver the last 10 to 15 years, it has become clear that the nucleolus is involved in numerous other functions than ribosome biogenesis (Pederson, 1998; Rubbi and Milner, 2003; Olson, 2004; Raska et al., 2006a; Boisvert et al., 2007).