I think that John Adams wanted to become president because his  father, John Adams, was the second president of the United States  of America was. And I also think that John â¦ Quincy Adams looked up  to his father, so when his father became president, he decided to  give it a shot.
holo-, hol-. (Greek: whole, entire, complete) Pertaining to genes that are carried by the Y chromosomes: The holandric genes are produced only through the paternal, or male, and never by the female.. Genes that males have from the Y chromosomes: The Y-linked genes can only be transmitted from a father to his son..
Oikos (plural, oikoi) is the ancient Greek word for household. It's italicized because it is a foreign word. We'll use oikos in this course because it describes something very specific to ancient Greece. We think of a household as a family maybe with a mother, father, and a couple of kids.