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heredity

noun as in transmission of traits from parents to offspring

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From the description of skin as “blue black” to the blues as a musical genre, the color blue and its many shades intertwine with African American heredity, history and heritage.

Using this data on heredity, the researchers have been able to categorise patients into three different groups.

The emperor was not chosen by heredity, like most other monarchies.

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It’s a Gothic, environmental take on heredity as well as inheritance, with one of the Haddesley daughters, Wenna, challenging both as human and earthen secrets bubble to the surface.

In these biological DNA letters our heredity is stored.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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