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Heredity vs Heritance - What's the difference?

heredity | heritance |

As nouns the difference between heredity and heritance

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 heritance is (archaic) inheritance.

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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    heritance

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) inheritance
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