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noun(in-her-i-tance)the act of inheriting property
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noun(in-her-i-tance)the reception of genetic qualities by transmission from parent to offspring
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noun(in-her-i-tance)the acquisition of a possession, condition, or trait from past generations
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noun(in-her-i-tance)the expression in offspring of phenotypic characters (such as pink flower color from red and white parents) intermediate between those of the parents; also : inheritance in a now discarded theory in which the genetic material of offspring was held to be a uniform blend of that of the parents
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noun(in-her-i-tance)mendelian inheritance
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noun(in-her-i-tance)genetic inheritance of a character (such as human skin color) controlled by polygenes