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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
heredity /hɪˈrɛdɪti/

▶noun

1 the passing on of physical or mental characteristics genetically from one generation to another.
■ a person's ancestry.

2 inheritance of title, office, or right.

– origin C18: from Fr. hérédité, from L. hereditas ‘heirship’, from heres, hered- ‘heir’.

'heredity' also found in these Oxford entries:

breeding - environmentalist - gene - genetic - genetics - hereditarian - hereditary - Mendelism

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