Heredity vs. Inheritance

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.

Inheritancenoun

The passing of title to an estate upon death.

Inheritancenoun

(countable) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.

Inheritancenoun

(biology) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.

Inheritancenoun

In object-oriented programming, the mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.

Inheritancenoun

The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities.

Inheritancenoun

That which is or may be inherited; that which is derived by an heir from an ancestor or other person; a heritage; a possession which passes by descent.

Inheritancenoun

A permanent or valuable possession or blessing, esp. one received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction.

Inheritancenoun

Possession; ownership; acquisition.

Inheritancenoun

Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation.

Inheritancenoun

A perpetual or continuing right which a man and his heirs have to an estate; an estate which a man has by descent as heir to another, or which he may transmit to another as his heir; an estate derived from an ancestor to an heir in course of law.

Inheritancenoun

hereditary succession to a title or an office or property

Inheritancenoun

that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner

Inheritancenoun

(genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents

Inheritancenoun

any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors;

Inheritance

Inheritance is the practice of passing on private property, titles, debts, entitlements, privileges, rights, and obligations upon the death of an individual. The rules of inheritance differ among societies and have changed over time.