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heredity
[ huh-red-i-tee ]
noun
- the transmission of genetic characters from parents to offspring: it is dependent upon the segregation and recombination of genes during meiosis and fertilization and results in the genesis of a new individual similar to others of its kind but exhibiting certain variations resulting from the particular mix of genes and their interactions with the environment.
- the genetic characters so transmitted.
heredity
/ hɪˈrɛdɪtɪ /
noun
- the transmission from one generation to another of genetic factors that determine individual characteristics: responsible for the resemblances between parents and offspring
- the sum total of the inherited factors or their characteristics in an organism
heredity
/ hə-rĕd′ĭ-tē /
- The passage of biological traits or characteristics from parents to offspring through the inheritance of genes.
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Word History and Origins
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Origin of heredity1
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Example Sentences
Not surprisingly, then, this is a book about heredity, about fathers and sons and their awkward relationships.
A frequently touching domestic drama about an academic Chicago family, it mulls Big Themes: war, faith, heredity.
Heredity decides how a man shall be bred; environment regulates what he shall learn.
Take away from a man all that heredity and environment have given him, and there will be nothing left.
As all men are what heredity and environment have made them, no man deserves punishment nor reward.
I doubt if most people, although they would call that a platitude, realize that heredity is anything more than a telling word.
As might be expected in this severer form of mental disturbance, heredity plays an especially important part in circular insanity.
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