- A descendant (in biology) is a product of reproduction , a new organism produced by one (or more) parents.
- A descendant is an individual descending from someone else.
- Descendant - an individual (usually a person) in relation to his ancestors .
- Descendant - son, heir.
- Descendants - representatives of future generations , a young, new generation.
- Offspring - a collection of descendants of one or more generations (see also Family ).
It can be used as a synonym for the word child for nodes , vertices , branches of some root node.
In genealogy, direct and indirect descendants are distinguished. See Kinship .
Direct descendant
In Russian genealogy, kinship is exclusively considered to be exclusively in the male line: “from father to son, descending”; this norm is well illustrated by the status of belonging to the noble estate, which, as you know, was not inherited by the mother, that is, the ancestors and descendants of the maternal line are not directly related (it is the only and last direct descendant in its line) . It is no coincidence that there is an expression: “the family has stopped”, which implies, above all, the absence of sons. Another example of rigor in the understanding of direct kinship is the rules of succession.
In genealogical studies, the term "in a straight female line" is sometimes used as the opposite of a straight line itself, i.e. "direct male", describing the kinship of several generations of women related by different generations in the classical genealogy, but interconnected by a chain of births: granddaughter-daughter-mother-grandmother, etc.
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