Heredity

What do we mean by heredity?

The genetic transmission of characteristics from parent to offspring. noun

The sum of characteristics and associated potentialities transmitted genetically to an individual organism. noun

Hereditarydescent or transmission, as of physical or mental qualities; hereditary succession or influence. noun

Specifically, in biology: The influence of parents upon offspring; transmission of qualities or characteristics, mental or physical, from parents to offspring. See atavism. noun

The principle or fact of inheritance, or the transmission of physical and mental characteristics from parent to offspring, regarded as the conservative factor in evolution, opposing the tendency to variation under conditions of environment. noun

Metaphorically, that which makes living beings inherit; the explanation or cause of the kinship or resemblance to ancestors which living beings exhibit, or the force or agent or principle that brings about this kinship or resemblance. noun

Metaphorically, the substratum or support or bearer or giver or cause of inheritance: that which makes the offspring to be like its parents or ancestors. This meaning (which depends upon an uncritical use of the word substance, and upon the opinion that we account for inheritance by calling it heredity) leads to the belief that since resemblance to parents may be considered by itself, it therefore exists in nature separated from the individuality of living beings. noun

Hereditary transmission of the physical and psychical qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants. See pangenesis. noun

Hereditary transmission of the physical and genetic qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants. noun

The total of inherited attributes noun

The biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next noun

Hereditary transmission of the physical and genetic qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants.

Words that are spelled similarly to heredity:
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Words that rhyme with heredity:
fedity, credit he, edit e, med dette, ueda t.

Adjectives that are often used to describe heredity:
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Nouns that are often described by the adjective heredity:
environment, chromatin, germ, movement, determination, and, fallacy, controversy, versus, the, degenerescence, povertycrime, research, inheritance, variation, results, uncertainty, interaction, factors, issue, laws.

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