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the heredity
noun
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.
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He had no tools to understand the mechanism behind the heredity.
This led me to thinking about the heredity part of longevity.
This was advantageous for several obvious reasons and was one of the factors that reinforced the heredity factor in heraldry.
It would involve shaping the heredity of our descendants by tinkering directly with the genetic material in the cells from which they germinate.
In reality both parents transmit the heredity pattern equally, and, on average, children resemble their mothers as much as they do their fathers.
The central argument concerning information in biology can be seen by considering the heredity of information, or the passing on of information from one generation to the next.
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Important examples are provided by ribose and deoxyribose which are present in the furanose form in nucleic acids, the heredity-controlling components of all living cells and fructose.
Nucleoside, a structural subunit of nucleic acids, the heredity-controlling components of all living cells, consisting of a molecule of sugar linked to a nitrogen-containing organic ring compound.
Cytosine, a nitrogenous base derived from pyrimidine that occurs in nucleic acids, the heredity-controlling components of all living cells, and in some coenzymes, substances that act in conjunction with enzymes in chemical reactions in the body.
Other important examples of tetrahydrofuran ring systems are the sugars ribose and deoxyribose, which are present in furanose form in, respectively, RNA and DNA, the heredity-controlling components of all living organisms.
"If one is looking for 'the heredity,' one can nearly always find it," he wrote.
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