Heredity vs. Reproduction

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.

Reproductionnoun

The act of reproducing new individuals biologically.

Reproductionnoun

The act of making copies.

Reproductionnoun

A copy of something, as in a piece of art; a duplicate.

Reproductionnoun

The act or process of reproducing; the state of being reproduced

Reproductionnoun

That which is reproduced.

Reproductionnoun

the process of generating offspring

Reproductionnoun

recall that is hypothesized to work by storing the original stimulus input and reproducing it during recall

Reproductionnoun

copy that is not the original; something that has been copied

Reproductionnoun

the act of making copies;

Reproductionnoun

the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring

Reproduction

Reproduction (or procreation or breeding) is the biological process by which new individual organisms – – are produced from their or parents. Reproduction is a fundamental feature of all known life; each individual organism exists as the result of reproduction.