heredity
IPA: hɝˈɛdʌti
noun
- Hereditary transmission of the physical and genetic qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants.
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Examples of "heredity" in Sentences
- While most things humans do have roots in heredity, could voting and political participation in general be another to add to the list?
- We need not use the term heredity at all, or if we do, must remember that in the present argument it does not refer to any transmission from the parent.
- Rupert Sheldrake's hypothesis of morphic resonance explains how much of heredity is not based on DNA at all but is a more holistic, field-like phenomenon.
- And if there is anything in heredity (such as tall parents having tall children) one would expect children of high socio-economic group parents to have more ability than children of low socio-economic group parents.
- In the September, 1971, Atlantic, R.J. Herrnstein summarized the position of psychologists and others who believe that heredity is substantially more important than environment in determining intelligence, as measured by IQ tests.
- I forgot – perhaps you can point out which of his peer-reviewed papers lend credence to or deal with "Rupert Sheldrake's hypothesis of morphic resonance explains how much of heredity is not based on DNA at all but is a more holistic, field-like phenomenon."
- Examples include the discovery of how the nucleic acid DNA, the chemical substance of heredity, is built (1962), how the synthesis of nucleic acids takes place (1959), how the activity of genes is regulated (1965) and what the genetic code looks like (1968).
- January 10th, 2006 at 4: 10 pm perhaps you can point out which of his peer-reviewed papers lend credence to or deal with "Rupert Sheldrake's hypothesis of morphic resonance explains how much of heredity is not based on DNA at all but is a more holistic, field-like phenomenon."
- June 23rd, 2006 at 2: 19 am mtDNA is mitochondrial DNA & is distinct from nuclear DNA. mtDNA codes only for the proteins of the mitochondrion, the cell organelle responsible for oxidative phosphorylation, & plays no role in heredity other than this. mtDNA is derived only from the ovum & is used in forensic DNA fingerprinting. kim Says:
- Thus it is "_heredity with natural selection which adapt_ the anatomical plan of the ganglia." {236b} It is heredity which impresses nervous changes on the individual. {236c} "In the lifetime of species actions originally intelligent may by frequent repetition _and heredity_," &c. {236d}; but he nowhere tells us what heredity is any more than Messrs. Herbert Spencer, Darwin, and Lewes have done.
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