maternal inheritance
Genetics
noun
Inheritance from the mother; specifically the inheritance of non-chromosomal genetic material via the cytoplasm of the ovum, usually in organelles such as mitochondria and chloroplasts.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London.
- heterotrophic
- heterotrophy
- heterotypic
- heterozygosis
- heterozygosity
- heterozygote
- heterozygous
- hetman
- het up
- heuch
- heuchera
- heugh
- heuretic
- heurige
- heuriger
- heurism
- heuristic
- heuristical
- heuristically
- hevea
- Hevesy, George Charles de
- hew
- hewer
- hewers of wood and drawers of water
- he who hesitates is lost