heredity, n.Definitions

Heredity runs in one's family.

Heredity is something you believe in if you have a very bright child.

Heredity is the transmission of unpleasant characteristics from the other side of the family.

Heredity is something parents comfortably believe in, if they have a bright child.

Heredity is a thing we adore in our hearts and ridicule with our mouths.

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

Heredity is contrasted with environment in that heredity is when you wind up with your mother's complexion while environment is when you wind up with your father's car.

Heredity is transmitted by both parents: many a girl is the picture of her father and the sound track of her mother.