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genetics | inheritance |

As an adjective genetics

is .

As a noun inheritance is

the passing of title to an estate upon death.

genetics

English

(wikipedia genetics) (wikiversity genetics lecture)

Noun

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  • (biology, genetics) The branch of biology that deals with the transmission and variation of inherited characteristics, in particular chromosomes and DNA.
  • (biology, genetics) The genetic makeup of a specific individual or species.
  • * 2005 , Mark Linden O’Meara, The Feeling Soul: A Roadmap to Healing and Living , Soul Care Publishing, ISBN 978-0-9680459-2-3, page 45:
    • As a result of your father’s, mother’s, and their parents genetics', you are born with a genetic structure that is dealt to you at conception. Our ancestry determines our ' genetics .
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    • Synonyms

    * (genetic makeup) genes

    Derived terms

    * evolutionary genetics * optogenetics * population genetics * quantitative genetics

    See also

    *

    inheritance

    English

    (wikipedia inheritance)

    Alternative forms

    * enheritance (obsolete) * enheritaunce (obsolete) * inheritaunce (obsolete)

    Noun

  • The passing of title to an estate upon death.
  • (lb) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.
  • (lb) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
  • In object-oriented programming, the mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.

    • Related terms

    * inherit * inheritable * inheritor * preheritance

    References

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