Heredity vs Lineage - What's the difference?
heredity | lineage |
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.
Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=July 19
, author=Ella Davies
, title=Sticks insects survive one million years without sex
, work=BBC
(advertising) A number of lines of text in a column.
* 1927 , William Leonard Crum, Advertising Fluctuations, Seasonal and Cyclical
As nouns the difference between heredity and lineage
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 lineage is descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.heredity
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(heredities)See also
* pangenesisAnagrams
*lineage
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* linageNoun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=They traced the ancient lineages of two species to reveal the insects' lengthy history of asexual reproduction. }}
- Total newspaper advertising lineage in the North Atlantic region
