Another word for heredity | Synonyms for heredity

Another word for heredity

heredity Synonyms

heredity

n.

inheritance, ancestry, hereditary transmission, hereditary succession, genetic makeup, Mendelism, Mendelianism, genetics, eugenics.

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The general laws of heredity and variation have been proved to apply to man as well as to animals and plants.
I guess so, but I wonder sometimes if heredity is the major factor.
Now we know, from the numerous experiments in heredity which have resulted since the rediscovery of Mendel's principles, that an individual may carry a character in one of two conditions.
The operation of Mendelian processes in human heredity is further shown by the close relationship that exists between the appearance of albinoes and cousin marriages.
Albinism appears, in the processes of heredity, to be sometimes indissolubly correlated with certain peculiar traits.

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