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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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  1. n. 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.
  2. n. the biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next
  3. n. the total of inherited attributes
  4. 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.
  5. Hereditary transmission of the physical and psychical qualitiesof parents to their offspring; the biological law by which livingbeings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants. SeePangenesis.
  6. n:100 n. the biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next n. the total of inherited attributes