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Keywords: Offspring, Trait, Ancestor, Parent, Genetic

Related Terms: Allele, Dominant, Genotype, Hereditary, Heritable, Mendelian, Recessive, Heterozygote, Heterozygous, Homozygous, Dominant Inheritance, Alleles, Mendelian Inheritance, Dihybrid Cross, Autosomal Dominant, Codominance, Monohybrid, Mutant, Homozygote, Dominance, Autosomal Dominant Inheritance, Autosomal Recessive Inheritance, Polygenic Inheritance, Autosomal Recessive, Recessive Inheritance, Recessive Gene, Codominant, Congenic, Dominant Allele, Dominant Gene, Genetic Heterogeneity, Overdominance, Fixation, Incomplete Dominance, Testcross, Strain, Test Cross, Recessive Allele, Heterozygosity, Inherited, Polygenic, Dominant Trait, Homozygosity, Polygene, Recessive Trait, Quantitative Trait Locus, Sex-Linked Inheritance, Phenocopy, Inbred Strain, Complex Trait

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Hereditary transmission of the physical and psychical qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants. See Pangenesis.

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The transmission of a trait, such as blue eyes, from parents to offspring.

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the transmission of qualities from parent to offspring through the genes. Also see inherit.

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Qualities or traits transferred through the genes from one generation to another.

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