Heredity

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Heredity \He*red"i*ty\, n. [L. hereditas heirship.] (Biol.)
     Hereditary transmission of the physical and psychical
     qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law
     by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics
     in their descendants. See {Pangenesis}.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  heredity
       n 1: the biological process whereby genetic factors are
            transmitted from one generation to the next
       2: the total of inherited attributes [syn: {genetic endowment}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  60 Moby Thesaurus words for "heredity":
     Altmann theory, DNA, DNA double helix, De Vries theory,
     Galtonian theory, Mendelianism, Mendelism, RNA, Verworn theory,
     Weismann theory, Weismannism, Wiesner theory, allele, allelomorph,
     anticodon, biotype, birth, character, chromatid, chromatin,
     chromosome, codon, deoxyribonucleic acid, determinant, determiner,
     diathesis, endowment, eugenics, factor, gene, gene complex,
     gene flow, gene pool, genesiology, genetic code, genetic drift,
     genetics, genotype, hereditability, hereditary character,
     heritability, heritage, inborn capacity, inheritability,
     inheritance, mRNA, matrocliny, messenger RNA, nucleotide,
     operator gene, operon, patrocliny, pharmacogenetics,
     recessive character, regulator gene, replication, ribosomal RNA,
     structural gene, tRNA, transfer RNA