MetaGlossary.com: Hereditary

Definitions for "Hereditary" Add To Word List

Keywords: Offspring, Trait, Parent, Inborn, Genetic

Related Terms: Allele, Dominant, Genotype, Heredity, Heritable, Mendelian, Recessive, Heterozygote, X-Linked, Heterozygous, Homozygous, Genetic Variation, Dominant Inheritance, Alleles, Mendelian Inheritance, Autosomal Dominant, Codominance, Mutant, Homozygote, Dominance, Autosomal Dominant Inheritance, Autosomal Recessive Inheritance, Polygenic Inheritance, Autosomal Recessive, Recessive Inheritance, Recessive Gene, Codominant, Congenic, Dominant Allele, Dominant Gene, Maternal Inheritance, Genetic Heterogeneity, Incomplete Dominance, Null Allele, Strain, Recessive Allele, Heterozygosity, Inherited, Polygenic, Loss Of Heterozygosity, Dominant Trait, Homozygosity, Polygene, Recessive Trait, Haploinsufficiency, Quantitative Trait Locus, Sex-Linked Inheritance, Phenocopy, Inbred Strain, Complex Trait

Submit a better definition with this meaning

Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or crown.

ftp://ftp.uga.edu/pub/misc/webster/

Helpful?

Transmitted, or capable of being transmitted, as a constitutional quality or condition from a parent to a child; as, hereditary pride, bravery, disease.

ftp://ftp.uga.edu/pub/misc/webster/

Helpful?

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

http://www.healthcare.uiowa.edu/InternalMedicine/Patients/bonemarrow/Glossa...

Helpful?

Genetically transmitted from parent to children.

http://www.macgn.org/cc_apc1.html

Helpful?

View 50 more results with this meaning

Privacy Statement | Terms of Use