as in blood
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the natural process by which physical and mental qualities are passed from a parent to a child
Heredity plays no part in the disease.
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Recent Examples of heredity
Her research on the genes in corn changed scientists’ understanding of heredity and laid the foundation for treating genetic defects in humans.
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Tyler Kingkade, NBC news, 12 June 2025
Zoologist Charles Davenport created the Cold Spring Harbor Eugenics Record Office in 1910 to pursue his interests in evolution, breeding and human heredity.
—Shoumita Dasgupta, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2025
Newell comes by his activism through heredity.
—Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2024
And both relied on the xenophobic logic and pseudoscientific understandings of heredity that define eugenics.
—Arthur Caplan, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2024
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Tyler Kingkade, NBC news, 12 June 2025
Zoologist Charles Davenport created the Cold Spring Harbor Eugenics Record Office in 1910 to pursue his interests in evolution, breeding and human heredity.
—Shoumita Dasgupta, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2025
Newell comes by his activism through heredity.
—Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2024
And both relied on the xenophobic logic and pseudoscientific understandings of heredity that define eugenics.
—Arthur Caplan, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for heredity
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For Reze Arc, every member of the production team offered up a huge amount of blood and, as a result, the movie is bursting with energy.—
Jack Smart,
PEOPLE,
23 Oct. 2025
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Doctors can clamp an intact aneurysm and stop blood flow to the bubble, restoring the blood vessel wall.—
Kaan Ozcan,
NBC news,
23 Oct. 2025
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There was not enough semen on Ramos to conduct a search using forensic genetic genealogy.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
21 Oct. 2025
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There will be an entertaining genealogy activity and goal setting.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Oct. 2025
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One increasingly important topic likely not discussed at the gathering was Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s succession plans.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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Instead of taking a low profile and playing down any claims to Taiwan’s independent status like his more cautious DPP predecessor Tsai Ying-wen, Lai has lurched toward formal independence with a succession of speeches making the case for Taiwanese nationhood.—
Lyle Goldstein,
Time,
23 Oct. 2025
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As noted in the release, the Saving Wildcats Conservation Breeding for Release Center is equipped with facilities for breeding, veterinary care and remote monitoring with the goal of preparing wildcats to be released into the wild.—
Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
21 Oct. 2025
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Wet leaves that don’t dry out quickly become breeding areas for fungus and bacteria.—
Leanne Potts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
21 Oct. 2025
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One in seven people have never spoken to their relatives about their family's health history, according to a recent global study from Bupa, a health insurance company.—
Renée Onque,
CNBC,
26 Oct. 2025
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My White relatives were, despite their blind spot on race, devout Roman Catholics.—
John Blake,
CNN Money,
26 Oct. 2025
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Alabi, who is Nigerian, thinks about fragrance as a form of memory and ancestry.—
Kimberly Wilson,
Essence,
24 Oct. 2025
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There were roughly 60,000 people in immigration detention nationwide in both August and September – more than at any time since the United States government interned some 120,000 people, the majority of Japanese citizenship or ancestry, during World War II.—
Lauren Villagran,
USA Today,
19 Oct. 2025
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There’s nothing wrong with this effort by an artist to depict those tender and heroic moments after giving birth.—
Elisabeth Sherman,
Parents,
23 Oct. 2025
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Advertisement These enemies of the Republic never forgot the its violent birth.—
Time,
Time,
23 Oct. 2025
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And so the conflict between love, on one side, and faith, family, and tradition reignites, in a season that retraces the arc of its predecessor—and especially its finale—a bit too closely.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
23 Oct. 2025
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But the lack of transparency and due process are similar, and there are few to no guarantees of the safety of people whom ICE agents remove, often without identifying themselves, and move around without notifying the family or lawyers of the detained.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Heredity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heredity. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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