hereditaryadjective
uk/hɪˈred.ɪ.tər.i/us/həˈred.ə.ter.i/(of characteristics or diseases) passed from the genes of a parent to a child, or (of titles and positions in society) passed from parent to a child as a right:
a hereditary disease
Depression is often hereditary.
It is a hereditary title, so Mark Howard will become Sir Mark Howard on his father's death.
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Genetics
- adenine
- anaphase
- chromosomal
- codon
- deoxyribonucleic acid
- double helix
- gene therapy
- genetic code
- GMO
- heredity
- homozygous
- inheritance
- mutation
- oncogene
- recessive
- ribosomal RNA
- ribosome
- sex chromosome
- synapsis
- translocation
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