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heredity |
2 definitions found 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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