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inheritance

6 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. inheritance (noun)
  2. blending inheritance (noun)
  3. maternal inheritance (noun)
  4. Mendelian inheritance (noun)
  5. particulate inheritance (noun)
  6. quantitative inheritance (noun)

in·her·i·tance

noun \in-ˈher-ət-ən(t)s\

Definition of INHERITANCE

1
: the reception of genetic qualities by transmission from parent to offspring
2
: all of the genetic characters or qualities transmitted from parent to offspring—compare genotype 2, phenotype

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