What is Heredity and give examples?
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- Heredity is defined as the characteristics we get genetically from our parents and our relatives before them.
- An example of heredity is the likelihood that you will have blue eyes.
- An example of heredity is your possibility of having breast cancer based on family history.
- the theory advanced by Darwin, now rejected, that transmission of traits is caused by every cell’s throwing off particles called gemmules, which are the basic units of hereditary transmission. The gemmules were said to have collected in the reproductive cells, thus ensuring that each cell is represented in the germ cells. Cf. blastogenesis. —pangenetic, adj.
- Biology. the science of heredity, studying resemblances and differences in related organisms and the mechanisms which explain these phenomena. 2. the genetic properties and phenomena of an organism. —geneticist, n. —genetic, adj.
- hereditist
- a believer in the theory that heredity, more than environment, determines nature,he·red·i·ties
- The genetic transmission of characteristics from parent to offspring.
- The sum of characteristics and associated potentialities transmitted genetically to an individual organism.
- Origin of heredity
- French hérédité from Old French heredite inheritance from Latin hērēditās from hērēs hērēd- heir ; see ghē- in Indo-European roots.
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