Another word for heredity
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- The study or practice of attempting to improve the human gene pool by encouraging the reproduction of people considered to have desirable traits and discouraging or preventing the reproduction of people considered to have undesirable traits.
- The branch of biology that deals with heredity, especially the mechanisms of hereditary transmission and the variation of inherited characteristics among similar or related organisms.
- The genetic constitution of an individual, group, or class.
- The theoretical principles of heredity formulated by Gregor Mendel; Mendel's laws.
- Inheritance pursuant to the common-law doctrines of succession. Inheritance pursuant to the common-law doctrines of succession.
- Ancestral descent or lineage.
- Ancestors considered as a group.
- The action of inheriting something:
- Something inherited or to be inherited:
- Something regarded as a heritage:
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