Definitions for heredity

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heredity he·red·i·ty

Spelling: [huh-red-i-tee]

IPA: /həˈrɛd ɪ ti/

Heredity is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 195 anagrams from letters in heredity (deehirty).

Definitions for heredity

noun

1. the transmission of genetic characters from parents to offspring: it is dependent upon the segregation and recombination of genes during meiosis and fertilization and results in the genesis of a new individual similar to others of its kind but exhibiting certain variations resulting from the particular mix of genes and their interactions with the environment.
2. the genetic characters so transmitted.

Origin of heredity

1530-40; Middle French heredite Latin hērēditāt- (stem of hērēditās) inheritance, equivalent to hērēd- (stem of hērēs) heir + -itāt- -ity

Examples for heredity

It was the success in Composition which tickled his father's pride, for was not this a proof of heredity?

We see that the heredity relation is an extremely complex affair.

By heredity and discipline all minds are shaped to this great hour.

There was no link wanting; the chain of heredity, logical and implacable, was unbroken.

Not surprisingly, then, this is a book about heredity, about fathers and sons and their awkward relationships.

A frequently touching domestic drama about an academic Chicago family, it mulls Big Themes: war, faith, heredity.

I agree that a man cannot for long conceal his true nature; we are what we are by heredity.

Questions of heredity, procreation and education will be dealt with calmly and freely.

It grows out of the biological discussion of instinct, heredity, etc.

He was one of those frequent cases which give the lie to the laws of heredity.