Chiefly Biology. The property of living organisms of transmitting their characteristics to their offspring (and hence to subsequent descendants); the…
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释义 | the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [noun] (173) heredity1844 Chiefly Biology. The property of living organisms of transmitting their characteristics to their offspring (and hence to subsequent descendants); the… hereditation1845 Inheritance; heredity; (also) an instance of this. inheritance1859 transferred and figurative. Natural derivation of qualities or characters from parents or ancestry. heritability1882 The quality of being heritable, or capable of being inherited. hereditability1895 = heritability, n. Subcategories:— descent from common ancestor (24) — descent from independent ancestors (5) — breeding group (1) — interbreeding (7) — isolation (4) — cross-breeding or hybridism (44) — isogonism (1) — creolization (1) — combination of different genetic types (3) — matroclinous or patroclinous inheritance (2) — production unlike parents (6) — correspondence in structure (8) — part similar to that of a different animal (3) — condition of having same origin (of parts) (1) — similarity between different organisms (12) — occurrence of variant forms (10) — occurrence in only one form (1) — line of descent (4) — degree of relationship of descent (1) — breeding true (3) — prepotency (2) — hereditary transmission (3) — ancestor (4) — inheritor (2) — inherited quality or constitution (11) — group sharing common inheritance (5) |
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