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Heredity

//həˈɹɛdəti// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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. uncountable, usually

    "laws of heredity"

  2. 2
    the total of inherited attributes wordnet
  3. 3
    the biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next wordnet

Etymology

From Middle French heredité, from Latin hērēditas (“condition of being an heir”), from hēres (“heir”).

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