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Derivation vs Heredity - What's the difference?

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Derivation is a related term of heredity.


As nouns the difference between derivation and heredity

is that derivation is diversion while heredity is 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.

derivation

Noun

(en noun)
  • A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
  • The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence.
  • The act of tracing origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy; as, the derivation of a word from an Indo-European root.
  • The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
  • That from which a thing is derived.
  • That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction.
  • (mathematics) The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called the law of derivation, as the of differentiation or of integration.
  • (medicine) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.
  • Derived terms

    * derivation tree

    heredity

    English

    Noun

    (heredities)
  • 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.
  • See also

    * pangenesis

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