Definition of heredity in English English dictionary
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
transmission of physical or mental qualities, diseases, etc., from parent to offspring
The genetic transmission of a particular quality or trait from parent to offspring
inborn influences or traits inherited from biological parents inborn influences or traits inherited from biological parents
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
The transfer of genetic information from parents to their offspring by reproduction, for example leaf shape and petal colour
the transmission of information from parent to offspring through genetically coded information
Heredity is the process by which features and characteristics are passed on from parents to their children before the children are born. Heredity is not a factor in causing the cancer. the process by which mental and physical qualities are passed from a parent to a child before the child is born genetics (hérédité, from hereditas, from heres; HEIR). Transmission of physical and mental traits from parents to offspring through genes. From his studies in the late 19th century, Gregor Mendel derived certain basic concepts of heredity, which eventually became the foundation for the modern science of genetics. Each member of the parental generation transmits only half its genes to the offspring, and different offspring of the same parents receive different combinations of genes. Many characteristics are polygenic (i.e., influenced by more than one gene). Many genes exist in numerous variations (alleles) throughout a population. The polygenic and multiple allelic nature of many traits gives a vast potential for variability among hereditary characteristics. While the genotype (an individual's total hereditary makeup) determines the broad limits of features an individual may develop, the actual features that do develop (the phenotype) are dependent on complex interactions between genes and their environment. See also variation
A property possessed by all the wffs in a set is logically hereditary iff the accepted rules of inference pass it on (transmit it) to all the conclusions derivable from that set by those rules
The transmission of characters from parent to offspring by information encoded in the parental germ cells Genealogy
The transmission of behavioral, physiological and morphological characteristics from parent to offspring