Heredity

Definition:

• (n.) 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.

Compare heredity with other words:

heredity vs. lineage

ancestry vs. heredity

gemmule vs. heredity

environment vs. heredity

heredity vs. heritage

heredity vs. mobile

genetic vs. heredity

evolution vs. heredity

heredity vs. reproduction

heredity vs. inheritance

heredity vs. transmit

heredity vs. pangenesis

hereditary vs. heredity