HEREDITY
\həɹˈɛdɪtˌi], \həɹˈɛdɪtˌi], \h_ə_ɹ_ˈɛ_d_ɪ_t_ˌi]\
Definitions of HEREDITY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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the biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next
By Princeton University
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the biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
By Oddity Software
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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The branch of science concerned with the means and consequences of transmission and generation of the components of biological inheritance. (Stedman, 26th ed)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The transmission of physical or mental characteristics or qualities from parent to child; the tendency of an organism to reproduce the characteristics of ancestors.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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The organic relation between successive generations.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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Inheritance of qualities from ancestry.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The inheritance of certain qualities or tendencies.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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