Heredity
noun
The passing of traits from parents to their children.
Eye color is determined by heredity.
Often appears as...
- based on heredity
- heredity plays a role
noun
The genetic makeup, which is inherited from ones ancestors.
The study of heredity is important to understand genetic diseases.
Often appears as...
- genetic heredity
- study of heredity
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Academic
noun
An inherited or inheritable estate, property, or title.
She was the sole beneficiary of the heredity.
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- maintain heredity
- inherit heredity
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Formal
noun
The passing of traits from parents to their children.
Eye color is determined by heredity.
Often appears as...
- based on heredity
- heredity plays a role
noun
The genetic makeup, which is inherited from ones ancestors.
The study of heredity is important to understand genetic diseases.
Often appears as...
- genetic heredity
- study of heredity
Usage tips
Academic
noun
An inherited or inheritable estate, property, or title.
She was the sole beneficiary of the heredity.
Often appears as...
- maintain heredity
- inherit heredity
Usage tips
Formal
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Pro Tip 1/3Family Traits
Used to describe characteristics, like appearance or behavior, that are passed from parents to children.
His quick temper was a matter of heredity.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Learned
Indicates qualities not gained from experience, but from the genes received at birth.
Her musical talent comes from heredity, not practice.
Pro Tip 3/3Nature Over Nurture
Often cited in debates over the influence of genetics versus the environment.
In his case, heredity, not upbringing, seemed to shape his intelligence.
Pro Tip 1/3Family Traits
Used to describe characteristics, like appearance or behavior, that are passed from parents to children.
His quick temper was a matter of heredity.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Learned
Indicates qualities not gained from experience, but from the genes received at birth.
Her musical talent comes from heredity, not practice.
Pro Tip 3/3Nature Over Nurture
Often cited in debates over the influence of genetics versus the environment.
In his case, heredity, not upbringing, seemed to shape his intelligence.
Pro Tip 1/3Family Traits
Used to describe characteristics, like appearance or behavior, that are passed from parents to children.
His quick temper was a matter of heredity.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Learned
Indicates qualities not gained from experience, but from the genes received at birth.
Her musical talent comes from heredity, not practice.
Pro Tip 3/3Nature Over Nurture
Often cited in debates over the influence of genetics versus the environment.
In his case, heredity, not upbringing, seemed to shape his intelligence.
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What will humans look...
But why is that so interesting? It means that we are not a unique solution. It means you can create alternate chemistries to us that could be chemistries adaptable to a very different planet that could create life and heredity. The second experiment,
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How Mendel's pea plants...
like, say, people. These days, scientists know a lot more about genetics and heredity. And there are many other ways in which some characteristics are inherited. But, it all started with Mendel and his peas.
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Genetics 101 PIPE National...
the biological programming behind all life forms. But what exactly is the science of genetics? And what does its future hold? Genetics is the study of heredity.
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What will humans look...
But why is that so interesting? It means that we are not a unique solution. It means you can create alternate chemistries to us that could be chemistries adaptable to a very different planet that could create life and heredity. The second experiment,
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How Mendel's pea plants...
like, say, people. These days, scientists know a lot more about genetics and heredity. And there are many other ways in which some characteristics are inherited. But, it all started with Mendel and his peas.
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Genetics 101 PIPE National...
the biological programming behind all life forms. But what exactly is the science of genetics? And what does its future hold? Genetics is the study of heredity.
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Rudolf Steiner
Austrian Philosopher
However superficial prevailing views of heredity seem to be, it must be admitted that a person is indeed the bearer of inherited characteristics. This is the one aspect. He must often battle against these inherited traits and rid himself of them in order to bring to fulfillment the talents laid into him before he entered earthly existence.
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Paul Tournier
Swiss Author
Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.
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Paul Dudley White
American Scientist
We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself.
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Robert Green Ingersoll
American Lawyer
It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small.
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Ernst Haeckel
German Scientist
Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman Statesman
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
American Clergyman
Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.
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Kenneth Scott Latourette
American Historian
Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment.
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James Mark Baldwin
American Philosopher
Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.
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Luther Burbank
American Environmentalist
Heredity is nothing but stored environment.
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Rudolf Steiner
Austrian Philosopher
However superficial prevailing views of heredity seem to be, it must be admitted that a person is indeed the bearer of inherited characteristics. This is the one aspect. He must often battle against these inherited traits and rid himself of them in order to bring to fulfillment the talents laid into him before he entered earthly existence.
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Paul Tournier
Swiss Author
Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.
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Paul Dudley White
American Scientist
We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself.
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Robert Green Ingersoll
American Lawyer
It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small.
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Ernst Haeckel
German Scientist
Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman Statesman
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
American Clergyman
Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.
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Kenneth Scott Latourette
American Historian
Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment.
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James Mark Baldwin
American Philosopher
Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.
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Luther Burbank
American Environmentalist
Heredity is nothing but stored environment.
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