Heredity may refer to: Heredity: the transfer of characteristics from parent to offspring Inheritance: the hereditary transfer of titles, property, or assets from parent to offspring (or other beneficiary) A synonym for bloodline; for other uses of the term, see Bloodline (disambiguation) Hereditary property, in mathematics, a property of objects inherited by all their subobjects Heredity (journal), a scientific journal "Heredity" (short story), a science fiction story by Isaac Asimov Heredity (film), a 1912 film starring Harry Carey Hereditary (film), a 2018 film starring Toni Collette Heredity (album), a 1985 album by Rational Youth