Definition of Heredity

1. Noun. The biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next.

Generic synonyms: Biological Process, Organic Process
Derivative terms: Hereditary

2. Noun. The total of inherited attributes.
Exact synonyms: Genetic Endowment
Generic synonyms: Property
Specialized synonyms: Hereditary Pattern, Inheritance
Derivative terms: Hereditary

Definition of Heredity

1. n. 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.

Definition of Heredity

1. 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. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Heredity

1. the genetic transmission of characteristics [n -TIES]

Medical Definition of Heredity

1. 1. The genetic transmission of a particular quality or trait from parent to offspring. 2. The genetic constitution of an individual. Origin: L. Hereditas This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Heredity

hereditary myokymia
hereditary opalescent dentin
hereditary pancreatitis
hereditary pattern
hereditary peroneal nerve dysfunction
hereditary persistence of foetal haemoglobin
hereditary progressive arthro-ophthalmopathy
hereditary pyropoikilocytosis
hereditary sensory radicular neuropathy
hereditary spherocytosis
hereditary spinal ataxia
heredities
heredity (current term)
heredo-
heredofamilial tremor
heredopathia atactica polyneuritiformis
heredotaxia
herefor
herefore
herefrom
herehence
herein
hereinabove
hereinafter
hereinbefore
hereinbelow
hereinto

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