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Definition of Heredity
1. Noun. The biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next.
2. Noun. The total of inherited attributes.
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
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Definition of Heredity
1. the genetic transmission of characteristics [n -TIES]
Medical Definition of Heredity
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Heredity
Literary usage of Heredity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"QK New Repub 2:325-6; 6: Right to marry: what can a democratic civilization do
about heredity and child welfare? Л. Meyer. ..."
2. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1905)
"Baldwin, JM heredity and instinct. Science, ns, iii, 1896, pp. 438-445. 558-561.
... Brinton, DG Factors of heredity and environment in man. Wash., 1898. ..."
3. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1906)
"The main facts in regard to the cellular basis of heredity. Austin, t'ont. Zool.
Lab. Univ. Tei., No. 56 ; Philadelphia, Pa., Proc. ..."
4. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1894)
"by Mr. Theodore Gilman, there occur the following sentences : "Ribot defines its
meaning [that is. of heredity] as 'that biological law by ' ' which all ..."
5. Organic Evolution by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"CHAPTER X heredity With heredity again as with variation, we are dealing with a
fact; the laws of heredity and whether or not certain characters are ..."
6. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1898)
"This certainly was my own condition when writing my memoir on heredity in 1895,
and although in that memoir I pretty fully developed the theory of multiple ..."
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