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
- 1920 - A practical medical 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
- 1914 - Nuttall's 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 Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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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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