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Heredity is the passing of qualities from parent to child before the child is born — eye colour, height, some illnesses, the shape of a face, and so on. The body receives these things; the child does not choose them and does not learn them later. Scientists now talk a lot about genes and DNA, which are the tiny tools of heredity, but heredity is the older, broader word for the whole passing-down. Though actually, people use it loosely. Someone may say “it’s heredity” about a family talent for music or sport, even when practice, money, and home life did a lot of the work. And it is easy to mix with heritage: heritage is what a family or country passes down in culture, land, language, and stories — things you grow up with, not things already in the body. Habit is different again: that is what you learn after you are born.
組成From Middle French heredité, from Latin hērēditas (“the condition of being an heir”), from hēres (“heir”). The old idea is “what an heir receives”; later the word specialised to what the body receives from parents.
同家族的字
- hereditaryadjective: a hereditary illness is one heredity can pass on
- heirfrom the same Latin hēres, “heir”
- heritagesame root, but culture, land, and stories — not the body
- inheritto receive what an heir receives, including (in later use) genes
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hereditynoun/hɪˈɹɛdɪti/
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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.
- laws of heredity
- genetics and heredity
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