Hereditary vs. Heredity

Hereditaryadjective

Passed on as an inheritance, by last will or intestate.

Hereditaryadjective

Of a title, honor or right: legally granted to somebody's descendant after that person's death.

Hereditaryadjective

Of a person: holding a legally hereditary title or rank.

Hereditaryadjective

Of a disease or trait: passed from a parent to offspring in the genes

Hereditaryadjective

(math) Of a ring: such that all submodules of projective modules over the ring are also projective.

Hereditarynoun

A hereditary ruler; a hereditary peer in the House of Lords.

Hereditaryadjective

Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or crown.

Hereditaryadjective

Transmitted, or capable of being transmitted, as a constitutional quality or condition from a parent to a child; as, hereditary pride, bravery, disease.

Hereditaryadjective

tending to occur among members of a family usually by heredity;

Hereditaryadjective

inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent;

Hereditaryadjective

(of a title, office, or right) conferred by or based on inheritance

Hereditaryadjective

(of a person) holding a position by inheritance

Hereditaryadjective

(of a characteristic or disease) determined by genetic factors and therefore able to be passed on from parents to their offspring or descendants

Hereditaryadjective

relating to inheritance

Hereditaryadjective

(of a set) defined such that every element which has a given relation to a member of the set is also a member of the set.

Hereditynoun

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.

Hereditynoun

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.

Hereditynoun

the biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next

Hereditynoun

the total of inherited attributes

Heredity

Heredity, also called inheritance or biological inheritance, is the passing on of traits from parents to their offspring; either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction, the offspring cells or organisms acquire the genetic information of their parents. Through heredity, variations between individuals can accumulate and cause species to evolve by natural selection.