GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

GK

WORLD HISTORY

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Relating to, based on, or tracing descent through the male line is called
A
patrilineal
B
matrilineal
C
polynous
D
patriot
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Patrilineality, also known as the male line, the spear side or agnatic kinship, is a common kinship system in which an individual’s family membership derives from and is recorded through their father’s lineage.

Detailed explanation-2: -Something patrilineal is related to your relationship with your father, or to your family’s line of male descendants-for example, your father, his father, his father’s father, and so on.

Detailed explanation-3: -: relating to, based on, or tracing descent through the paternal line.

Detailed explanation-4: -lineage, descent group reckoned through only one parent, either the father (patrilineage) or the mother (matrilineage). All members of a lineage trace their common ancestry to a single person.

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