Dictionary Entry
heredity
heredity is a 8-letter English word with 3 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 13 · 3 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
the total of inherited attributes
- 3noun
the biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next
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