heredity English

Meaning heredity meaning

What does heredity mean?

heredity

— noun the biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next

— noun the total of inherited attributes

Synonyms heredity synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as heredity?

heredity English » English

inheritance

lineage

heritage

succession

pedigree

parentage

genetic endowment

genealogy

descendant

strain

species

seeds

nationality

inherit

inherent

heritability

hereditary trait

hereditary property

hereditary feature

hereditary character

hereditary

heirship

genotype

genome

genetic trait

genetic inheritance

family

congenital

clan

blood

atavism

Topics heredity topics

What do people use heredity to talk about?

Social behavior Relationships Kinship

Related by birth

• What words refer to inheriting physical traits from your ancestors?
  genetics inherit heredity run in the family pass on take after bad blood genes breeding

Examples heredity examples

How do I use heredity in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Does a child's musical talent depend on heredity?

We are influenced both by environment and by heredity.

Movie subtitles

First you think it's heredity and then you get some guy with several generations of clergymen behind them.

They say there's nothing to heredity anyway.

Heredity.

I couldn't prove you're wrong, of course, sir. but some fellow criminologists, including some behavior scientists. have begun to make me believe. we've all been putting too much emphasis on environment. and too little on heredity.

Don't go to any major-league doctor with that heredity theory.

I wonder if it's heredity or environment.

Probably a congenital weakness, something in the heredity.

He's a very big expert on heredity versus environment.

Interesting heredity there.

I'll admit there's a strong resemblance. but that's a matter of heredity, not magic.

Banana flies, used for heredity tests.

Now, you see, in this way, we managed to transfer both heredity and experience, but the transfer is unstable.

Guess I have a dumb heredity.

I'm not saying his life is threatened by a severe disease, but I do believe he probably has adenoids, or a tapeworm, or bad heredity, or maybe all three.

The best evidence for my theory of heredity.

Well, I couldn't prove you're wrong of course, sir, but some fellow criminologists including some behavior scientists, have begun to make me believe we've all been putting too much emphasis on environment and too little on heredity.

But my behavior is determined by my heredity, my body, and my environment.

I must have hit on heredity.

It's all a matter of heredity.

To reach for the control of heredity.

I don't care about heredity versus environment.

But the heredity principle is never determined. And many English barons are, at least, still in doubt.

Your actions betray your heredity.

Heredity, Jack.

Biology teaches us that, to improve the race, we can only count on heredity control. Biology allows us to do this.

I guess mine is caused by heredity.

First step to remote heredity.

Now, mutations, sudden changes in heredity are passed on.

It's made of four different parts, called nucleotides which constitute the four letters of the genetic code the language of heredity.

On another planet with a different sequence of random processes to make heredity diversity and a different environment to select particular combinations of genes the chance of finding beings very similar to us must be close to zero.

Genius-level intelligence is usually the result of heredity and environment.

The image is a prison of the soul, your heredity, your education, your vices and aspirations, your qualities, your psychological world.

Is heredity the culprit?

News and current affairs

Genes are the basic unit of heredity, and, unless you are an identical twin, the combination of genes inherited from your parents is unique to you.

Folk ideas about heredity are a particularly powerful cultural tool, but they are not unique to pre-modern societies.

Once again, social meanings are enmeshed within beliefs about heredity.

But like any other peoples, our own application of that information to the puzzle of our existence is strongly influenced by our non-scientific ideas, our pervasive folk ideologies of heredity.

For a long time, those who studied the nature of life and heredity were divided into two camps: epigeneticists, who emphasized environmental influences on living organisms, and preformists, who stressed the similarities between parents and progeny.

Widely publicized in recent years by Oxford evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, the new synthesis unites Darwin's theory of natural selection with Mendelian genetics, which explains heredity.

This was the case with vaccinations and the recognition that DNA is the stuff of heredity - and it will happen eventually with genetic engineering.