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Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.
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Meaning of "heredity" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD HEREDITY

From Old French heredite, from Latin hērēditās inheritance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF HEREDITY

heredity  [hɪˈrɛdɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HEREDITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Heredity is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HEREDITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Heredity

Heredity is the passing of traits to offspring from its parents or ancestor. This is the process by which an offspring cell or organism acquires or becomes predisposed to the characteristics of its parent cell or organism. Through heredity, variations exhibited by individuals can accumulate and cause some species to evolve. The study of heredity in biology is called genetics, which includes the field of epigenetics.

Definition of heredity in the English dictionary

The definition of heredity in the dictionary is the transmission from one generation to another of genetic factors that determine individual characteristics: responsible for the resemblances between parents and offspring. Other definition of heredity is the sum total of the inherited factors or their characteristics in an organism.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HEREDITY


absurdity
əbˈsɜːdɪtɪ
acidity
əˈsɪdɪtɪ
aridity
əˈrɪdɪtɪ
commodity
kəˈmɒdɪtɪ
comorbidity
ˌkəʊmɔːˈbɪdɪtɪ
cupidity
kjuːˈpɪdɪtɪ
ditty
ˈdɪtɪ
fluidity
fluːˈɪdɪtɪ
humidity
hjuːˈmɪdɪtɪ
hybridity
haɪˈbrɪdɪtɪ
intrepidity
ˌɪntrɪˈpɪdɪtɪ
invalidity
ˌɪnvəˈlɪdɪtɪ
liquidity
lɪˈkwɪdɪtɪ
morbidity
mɔːˈbɪdɪtɪ
nudity
ˈnjuːdɪtɪ
oddity
ˈɒdɪtɪ
rapidity
rəˈpɪdɪtɪ
rigidity
rɪˈdʒɪdɪtɪ
stupidity
stjuːˈpɪdɪtɪ
turbidity
tɜːˈbɪdɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HEREDITY

heredes
hereditability
hereditable
hereditably
hereditament
hereditaments
hereditarian
hereditarianism
hereditarianist
hereditarily
hereditariness
hereditary
heredities
hereditist
heredo-familial
Hereford
Hereford and Worcester
Herefordshire
herefrom
herein

WORDS THAT END LIKE HEREDITY

avidity
crudity
face validity
flaccidity
frigidity
gravidity
hyperacidity
lividity
lucidity
modulus of rigidity
placidity
putridity
quiddity
rancidity
relative humidity
rotundity
solidity
superfluidity
timidity
validity

Synonyms and antonyms of heredity in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «HEREDITY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «heredity» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of heredity

Translation of «heredity» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HEREDITY

Find out the translation of heredity to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of heredity from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «heredity» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

遗传
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

la herencia
570 millions of speakers

English

heredity
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आनुवंशिकता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الوراثة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

наследственность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

hereditariedade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বংশগতি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hérédité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Keturunan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Vererbung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

遺伝
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

유전
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Heredity
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thừa kế
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பாரம்பரியம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आनुवंशिकता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kalıtım
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

eredità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dziedziczność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

спадковість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ereditate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κληρονομικότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

oorerwing
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ärftlighet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

arvelighet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of heredity

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HEREDITY»

The term «heredity» is quite widely used and occupies the 49.969 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HEREDITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «heredity» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «heredity» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about heredity

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10 QUOTES WITH «HEREDITY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word heredity.
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James Mark Baldwin
Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.
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Luther Burbank
Heredity is nothing but stored environment.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.
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Ernst Haeckel
Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.
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John B. S. Haldane
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.
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G. Stanley Hall
The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.
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George Kennedy
Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.
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Kenneth Scott Latourette
Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment.
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Laurence J. Peter
Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
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Lewis Thomas
We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HEREDITY»

Discover the use of heredity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to heredity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Human Heredity: Principles and Issues
Available with InfoTrac Student Collections http://gocengage.com/infotrac. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
Michael Cummings, 2013
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Intelligence, Heredity and Environment
This book will be required reading for students and professionals in the fields of intelligence, behavior genetics, biology, anthropology, and sociology.
Robert J. Sternberg, Elena Grigorenko, 1997
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A Cultural History of Heredity
Soon thereafter it evolved into one of the most fundamental concepts of biology. Here Staffan Müller-Wille and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger offer a succinct cultural history of the scientific concept of heredity.
Staffan Müller-Wille, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, 2012
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In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity
Daniel Kevles traces the study and practice of eugenics--the science of "improving" the human species by exploiting theories of heredity--from its inception in the late nineteenth century to its most recent manifestation within the field of ...
Daniel J. Kevles, 1985
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Heredity
Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
J. Arthur Thomson, 2006
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Mendel's Principles of Heredity
His findings languished until 1902, when William Bateson revived interest in the subject with this book, a succinct account of Mendel's heredity-related discoveries.
William Bateson, Gregor Mendel, 2013
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Heredity
Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
James A. S. (James Anderson Scot Watson, 2012
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Human Heredity: Principles and Issues, Updated Edition
This Updated 7th edition features a new section, Genetic Control, at the end of the text.
Michael Cummings, 2006
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Heredity and Infection: The History of Disease Transmission
This book traces the development of ideas about the transmission of disease during the last century to a point where a clear distinction was established between transmission by infection and genetic transmission.
Jean-Paul Gaudilliére, Ilana Löwy, 2012
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Heredity and Hope: The Case for Genetic Screening
Neither minimizing the difficulty of the choices that modern genetics has created for us nor fearing them, Cowan argues that we can improve the quality of our own lives and the lives of our children by using the modern science and ...
Ruth Schwartz COWAN, Ruth Schwartz Cowan, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HEREDITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term heredity is used in the context of the following news items.
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Heredity - The resilience of forest fragmentation genetics[mdash]no …
In the decade since a previous focal issue of Heredity on this topic (Lowe, 2005), research to examine the resilience of forest trees to the genetic impacts of ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
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Heredity - A robust multiple-locus method for quantitative trait locus …
Original Article. Heredity advance online publication 15 July 2015; doi: 10.1038/hdy.2015.61. A robust multiple-locus method for quantitative ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
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Heredity - High nucleotide diversity and limited linkage … - Nature
Original Article. Heredity advance online publication 15 July 2015; doi: 10.1038/hdy.2015.53. High nucleotide diversity and limited linkage ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
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Heredity - Genetic variance components and heritability of … - Nature
The additive and dominance genetic variance of heterozygosity has previously been derived for loci with two alleles by Mitton et al. in Heredity ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
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Heredity - Establishment of a coastal fish in the Azores: recent …
Original Article. Heredity advance online publication 15 July 2015; doi: 10.1038/hdy.2015.55. Establishment of a coastal fish in the Azores: ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
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Family hopes age progressed photo sparks Isabel's return
Heredity is the key in this,” Loftin said in a phone interview. “It is a subjective process. I took from those images the like characteristics they all ... «Arizona Daily Star, Jul 15»
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It's Getting Tough To Tell Planned Parenthood From Nazis
These are gongenital feeble-mindedness; schizophrenia, circular insanity; heredity epilepsy; hereditary chorea (Huntington's)' hereditary ... «The Federalist, Jul 15»
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The Statesman: What causes cancer?
To determine whether differences in heredity or environment are responsible for such differences, scientists have examined cancer rates in ... «The Statesman, Jul 15»
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God's grace is the only antidote for our sin - Network Norwich
Our heredity, or psychological damage, our emotional weaknesses and the other numerous human shortfalls are now understood to be key ... «Network Norwich, Jul 15»
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Racist, Pro-Nazi Roots of Planned Parenthood Revealed - Breitbart
The unfit (Hat tip: The Federalist) included those suffering from, “gongenital feeble-mindedness; schizophrenia, circular insanity; heredity ... «Breitbart News, Jul 15»

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