heredity
noun
- process of inheritance from parent to child
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /hɪˈɹɛdɪti/ / /həˈɹɛdəti/
noun
Etymology: From Middle French heredité, from Latin hērēditas (“condition of being an heir”), from hēres (“heir”).
- 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.
“laws of heredity”
“genetics and heredity”