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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Heredity \He*red"i*ty\, n. [L. hereditas heirship.] (Biol.)
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}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
heredity
n 1: the biological process whereby genetic factors are
transmitted from one generation to the next
2: the total of inherited attributes [syn: {genetic endowment}]
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