the biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next
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the total of inherited attributes
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Heredity \He*red"i*ty\, n. [L. hereditas heirship.] (Biol.) 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}.
There could be many causes for the hearing disorders, Crowe says, including heredity and loud noises as well as lack of medical attention to ear infections or other problems in childhood.
Altman and Cech have now independently discovered that RNA is not only a molecule of heredity but can also serve as a biocatalyst.
So what you see before you Is the best that I can be, And if you have complaints with that, Then blame heredity.
There is a lot of heredity and tradition." The secret of perfume distillation reached Ireland in the 6th century and monks soon figured out how to use it for making whiskey.
This story begins with the discovery of the laws of heredity by the Austrian monk Gregor Mendel in 1866 and goes on to the even higher drama of the discovery of the structure of the genetic material DNA in 1953.
It can help us to produce a better outcome in development." Researchers have argued for years over the relative importance of heredity and environment in determining intelligence.
The study is one of the first to clearly separate the effects of heredity and environment on IQ scores, said Matthew McGue, a behavioral geneticist at the University of Minnesota.
DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a complex molecule found mainly in the nucleus of living cells and plays a vital role in heredity.
University of Pennsylvania and Smithkline Beckman Corp. scientists are trying to crystallize a protein that controls the expression of genes, the basic units of heredity.
The first new module features a shower and sink, airlock for spacewalks and incubator in which Japanese quail eggs will be hatched to study the effects of weightlessness on heredity.
Of those, about half are due to unknown or unmodifiable risk factors (such as heredity).