heredity

/hɪˈɹɛdɪti/

IPA: /HH ER0 EH1 D AH0 T IY0/

noun
  1. 1

    Hereditary transmission of the physical and genetic qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants.

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