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Definition of Theory of inheritance

1. Noun. (biology) a theory of how characteristics of one generation are derived from earlier generations.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Theory Of Inheritance

Literary usage of Theory of inheritance

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1896)
"Weismann's theory of inheritance, even if we accept it (as I do not), ... tA theory of inheritance has to endeavor to answer the questions put here, ..."

2. The Problem of Human Life: Embracing the "evolution of Sound" and "evolution by Alexander Wilford Hall (1880)
"... since no physical theory of inheritance can aid him. I have here given it to him without money and without price. (Will he accept it? We shall see. ..."

3. An Introduction to the Study of Social Evolution: The Prehistoric Period by Francis Stuart Chapin (1913)
"... independently inheritable factors.15 Besides the Mendelian theory of inheritance there is one other theory: Francis Galton's theory of Regression. ..."

4. The History of Creation, Or, the Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, Edwin Ray Lankester (1892)
"However, apart from his wholly unfounded theory of inheritance and many ... On the Continuity of Germ-plasma as the Foundation for a Theory of Inheritance. ..."

5. The History of Creation, Or, The Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, Edwin Ray Lankester, L. Dora Schmitz (1892)
"However, apart from his wholly unfounded theory of inheritance and many ... On the Continuity of Germ-plasma as the Foundation for a Theory of Inheritance. ..."

6. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1908)
"Everyone must allow that if Weismann's theory of inheritance is accepted we cannot admit the possibility of somatic inheritance. ..."

7. The Evolution Theory by August Weismann (1904)
"... the understanding of which—in as far as we can as yet speak of understanding at all—is only possible on the basis of a theory of inheritance. ..."

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