Associations to the word «Heredity»

Wiktionary

HEREDITY, 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.

Dictionary definition

HEREDITY, noun. The biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next.
HEREDITY, noun. The total of inherited attributes.

Wise words

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