heredity

Meaning

Noun

  • Hereditary transmission of the physical and genetic qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants.

Origin

  • From Middle French heredité, from Latin hērēditas, from hēres.

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