Definition of: heredity

(hə·red′ə·tē) noun plural ·ties
1. Transmission of physical characteristics, mental traits, tendency to disease, etc., from parents to offspring.
2. Biol. The tendency manifested by an organism to develop in the likeness of a progenitor, because of the transmission of genetic factors in the reproductive process.
3. The sum total of an individual's inherited characteristics. [<F hérédité <L hereditas, -tatis an inheritance <heres, -edis an heir]

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natural heredity
heredity in re
one s heredity
including heredity

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