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Meaning of 'heredity' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Heredity [ n.]
- Hereditary transmission of the physical and psychical qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants. See Pangenesis.

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