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Heredity vs Heritability - What's the difference?

heredity | heritability |

As nouns the difference between heredity and heritability

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 heritability is (uncountable) the condition of being inheritable.

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

    Anagrams

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    heritability

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia heritability)
  • (uncountable) The condition of being inheritable
  • (countable, genetics) The ratio of the genetic variance of a population to its phenotypic variance; i.e. the proportion of variability that is genetic in origin

    • Synonyms

    * inheritability (much less common )

    Antonyms

    * environmentability