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The transmission of characteristics from one generation to the next. See Progeny. Cf Congenital. McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
he·red·i·ty
( hĕr-ed'i-tē)
1. The transmission of characteristics from parent to offspring by information encoded in the parental germ cells. 2. Genealogy. [L. hereditas, inheritance, fr. heres ( hered- ), heir]
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heredity
The transmission from parent to child of any of the characteristics coded for in the molecular sequences on DNA known as the GENES.