Inheritance

Word INHERITANCE
Character 11
Hyphenation in her it ance
Pronunciations /ɪnˈhɛɹətəns/

Definitions and meanings of "Inheritance"

What do we mean by inheritance?

The action of inheriting something. noun

Something inherited or to be inherited. noun

Something regarded as a heritage: synonym: heritage. noun

The process of genetic transmission of characteristics from parent or ancestor to offspring. noun

A characteristic so inherited. noun

The sum of genetically transmitted characteristics. noun

The act of inheriting, in any sense of that word: as, the inheritance of property or of disease. noun

In law, the estate cast upon the heir by law immediately on the death of the ancestor (Broom and Hadley); a legal right to real property not limited by years or the owner's life, so that it will pass by descent; an estate inuring to a person and his heirs; real estate. See estate of inheritance, under estate. noun

That which is or may be inherited; the immovable property passing in a family by descent; in a more general sense, any property passing by death to those entitled to succeed; a patrimony; a heritage. noun

A possession received by gift or without purchase; a permanent possession. noun

Possession; ownership; acquisition. noun

According to Galton's law of ancestral inheritance, the two parents contribute between them, on the average, one half of each inherited faculty, each of them contributing one quarter of it; the four grandparents contribute between them one quarter, or each of them one sixteenth; and so on. noun

According to Pearson's law, the contribution of the grandparents and great-grandparents is greater than Galton's law calls for, and the difference increases rapidly for more remote generations. Parental characteristics are sometimes strongly hereditary, sometimes slightly or not at all so; and while Galton and Pearson assume that these differences will, on the average, balance each other, the facts of inheritance show that this is not the case, and that the statistical laws, while no doubt useful for statistical purposes, are compiled from data some of which are date of inheritance and some not, and that they are of little value to the breeder who deals with individuals, or to the student of inheritance who seeks to distinguish hereditary from non-hereditary characters. So far as a parent resembles collateral relatives, such as brothers, sisters, and cousins, the resemblances are often transmitted to descendants with nearly or quite four times the frequency which these laws require. noun

Mendel's law of ancestral inheritance. In 1865 Gregor Johann Mendel (1822–84), an Austrian priest, published an account of experiments which he had undertaken for the purpose of determining the numerical value of parental characters in inheritance. Having obtained seed from the cross-breeding of two races or varieties of the garden pea which differed from each other in some one characteristic (for example, those with round and those with wrinkled seeds), he found that the cross-bred plants raised from these seeds manifested only one of the characteristics (roundness of seed, for example), which he called the dominant noun

(D), to the total or almost total exclusion of the other (irregularity of seed, for example), which he called recessive noun

(R). The second generation, produced from the crossbred plants which were allowed to fertilize themselves, instead of being uniform like their parents, broke into the two original forms in the average ratio of three dominants to one recessive. The recessives are themselves pure, and, if allowed to fertilize themselves, give rise to recessives only, for many generations. One third of the dominants are also pure, while the other two thirds produce descendants of which two thirds are dominants and one third pure recessives. Each successive generation consists of dominants and recessives in the ratio, for each 100, of 25 dominants of pure blood, 25 recessives of pure blood, and 50 dominants which produce descendants in the ratio of three dominants to one recessive. This result is expressed by Mendel in the formula, for each successive generation. 25 DD; 50 DR; 25 R; but it may also be expressed as x + 2xy + y and the result of cross-breeding with any number of characters conforms closely to the algebraical binomial theorem, or the expansion of (a + b + c + …. x). More recent study tends to show that Mendel's results hold good pretty generally, but by no means universally, in similar cases. Experiments and observations for the purpose of discovering the structural equivalent for the numerical law tend to support Mendel's opinion that there are, for two characters, four sorts of germ-cells in the reproductive organs of the cross-bred individuals—dominant ova, recessive ova, dominant male cells, and recessive male cells—and that, these are, on the average, equal in number, so that one quarter of the descendants are born from dominant ova fertilized by dominant male cells and are pure dominants; one quarter are born from recessive ova fertilized by recessive male cells, and are pure recessives; and one half are born from the union of an ovum of one sort with a male cell of the other sort, and are able to produce pure dominants, pure recessives, and cross-bred descendants in the original ratio. noun

The act or state of inheriting noun

That which is or may be inherited; that which is derived by an heir from an ancestor or other person; a heritage; a possession which passes by descent. noun

The passing of title to an estate upon death.

That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.

The act or mechanism of inheriting; the state of having inherited

(genetic algorithms) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.

The mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.

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The word "inheritance" in example sentences

_inheritance_ according to _right and justice_; [76] and for that (p. 097) end there have been diverse treaties, as well here as beyond the sea, to his great costs; nevertheless he hath not, by such requests and treaties, obtained his said inheritance, nor any important part thereof: and since the King, neither by the revenues of his realm, nor by any previous grant of subsidy, hath had enough wherewith to pursue ❋ James Endell Tyler (1820)

_great mystery_: for _less_ than an estate of inheritance so _great_ a prince _could_ not have, and an _absolute estate of inheritance_ in so ❋ Edmund Burke (1763)

And in issue #2, shipping two weeks later, Helena Bertinelli†™ s vow never to return to Gotham is tested by her vigilante fight to reclaim her inheritance from the Sicilian underworld †and by her unexpected feelings for the son of a Gotham kingpin! ❋ Unknown (2009)

I am considering a family group in which their inheritance is in a trust? from which all medical bills are paid. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the mid-1980s, he received $20,000 in inheritance money that was intended to finance a medical school education. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Unearned income (as in inheritance) is and should be taxable over a certain amount. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I wonder if inheritance is the best relationship between Sender/Receiver and Transfer (rer?). ❋ Unknown (2010)

Yet she could not shake off the instinctive fear that arose in her — man's inheritance from the wild and howling ages when his hairy, apelike prototype was afraid of the dark and personified the elements into things of fear. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In America, as in Europe, our great Greek inheritance is Athenian … or so we like to think. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Numerous studies have revealed that inheritance is not a significant source of wealth, accounting for less than 10% of the total wealth possessed by the top 5% of households. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But the only valuable inheritance is self-respect, and that has to be earned. ❋ Peter Buffett (2010)

Our inheritance is turned over to aliens, our houses to strangers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In fact, its inheritance is consistent with transmission via a dominant gene, meaning you only need one copy of it from either parent. ❋ Ewillett (2009)

But what happens, scholars have wondered, if instead we start with the acknowledgement that British Romanticism's conscious inheritance from the Enlightenment was patriotic unanimity unparalleled in Britain's history? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Hinting plans had been kicked into the long grass, he called inheritance tax reform 'an aspiration' but not something they would do 'the moment we take power'. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mexicans believe in barred windows because that is an inheritance from the old Colonial days which stem back to Spain and their history of wars. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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