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heredity

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Synonyms & Antonyms of heredity

formal the natural process by which physical and mental qualities are passed from a parent to a child

Heredity plays no part in the disease.

Synonyms & Near Synonyms for heredity

succession

ancestry,
birth,
blood,
bloodline,
breeding,
descent,
extraction,
family tree,
genealogy,
line,
lineage,
origin,
parentage,
pedigree,
stock,
strain

family,
house

kin,
kindred,
relations,
relatives

race

Antonyms & Near Antonyms for heredity

offspring

child,
heir,
inheritor,
son,
successor

issue,
posterity,
progeny,
seed

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