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Heredity vs Biophor - What's the difference?

heredity | biophor |

As nouns the difference between heredity and biophor

is that 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 while biophor is (obsolete|genetics) a supposed supramolecular unit of heredity.

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.

    • Related terms

    * hereditary

    See also

    * pangenesis

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    biophor

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, genetics) A supposed supramolecular unit of heredity