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    Heredity, also called inheritance or biological inheritance, is the passing on of traits from parents to their offspring; either through asexual reproduction...
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  • Heredity is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Nature Portfolio. It covers heredity in a biological sense, i.e. genetics. The journal...
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  • Look up heredity or hereditary in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Heredity may refer to: Heredity: the transfer of characteristics from parent to offspring...
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    Diabetes mellitus, often known simply as diabetes, is a group of common endocrine diseases characterized by sustained high blood sugar levels. Diabetes...
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  • The Journal of Heredity is a peer-reviewed scientific journal concerned with heredity in a biological sense, covering all aspects of genetics. It is published...
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  • Heredity is a 1985 album by Rational Youth, now down to singer Tracy Howe with numerous studio musicians. In retrospect, Howe was less than happy with...
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  • In mathematics and logic, Ackermann set theory (AST, also known as A ∗ / V {\displaystyle A^{*}/V} ) is an axiomatic set theory proposed by Wilhelm Ackermann...
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    The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics was founded in 1927 in Berlin, Germany. The Rockefeller Foundation partially...
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    crosses. Another form of non-Mendelian inheritance is known as infectious heredity. Infectious particles such as viruses may infect host cells and continue...
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    throughout the various cell-divisions. " W. S. Sutton, The Chromosomes in Heredity 1903 The chromosome theory of inheritance is credited to papers by Walter...
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    Hyperandrogenism is a medical condition characterized by high levels of androgens. It is more common in women than men. Symptoms of hyperandrogenism may...
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  • Telegony is a theory of heredity holding that offspring can inherit the characteristics of a previous mate of the female parent; thus the child of a woman...
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    study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms. It is an important branch in biology because heredity is vital to organisms' evolution. Gregor...
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    the emerging science of heredity. His work in this area has been called "the soundest, and most useful study of human heredity proposed in nineteenth-century...
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    and genetics: much ado about very little". The Missing Gene: Psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless Search for Genes. Algora. ISBN 0-87586-410-4. Archived...
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    The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness was a 1912 book by the American psychologist and eugenicist Henry H. Goddard, dedicated...
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  • Human Heredity is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of human genetics. It was established in 1948 as Acta Genetica et Statistica...
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    The Heredity Commission was a eugenic advisory group to the government of the United States of America during the early 20th century. It was founded in...
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    experiments conducted between 1856 and 1863 established many of the rules of heredity, now referred to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance. Mendel worked with...
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    Buddhism and Jainism had arisen, proclaiming social orders unlinked to heredity. Early political consolidations gave rise to the loose-knit Maurya and...
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    The Hereditary Health Court (German: Erbgesundheitsgericht, EGG), also known as the Genetic Health Court, was a court that decided whether people should...
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    eugenics and behavioral genetics when he was discussing the influence of heredity and environment on social advancement. Galton was influenced by On the...
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  • "Heredity" is a science fiction short story by the American writer Isaac Asimov. Asimov wrote the story, his twenty-third, in August 1940 under the title...
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    an ethnic religion is a religion or belief associated with notions of heredity and a particular ethnic group. Ethnic religions are often distinguished...
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    Heredity is a 1912 American drama film directed by D. W. Griffith. Harry Carey - White Renegade Father Madge Kirby - Indian Mother Jack Pickford - Son...
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    land and water, with cannibalistic rituals on prisoners of war. While heredity had some weight, leadership was a status more won over time than assigned...
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    Evolution (section Heredity)
    give rise to modern evolutionary theory. In this synthesis the basis for heredity is in DNA molecules that pass information from generation to generation...
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    definitive contributions to elucidating that chromosomes are the vectors of heredity, with two notions that became known as 'chromosome continuity' and 'chromosome...
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    Lamarck briefly mentioned two traditional ideas in his discussion of heredity, in his day considered to be generally true. The first was the idea of...
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    was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the study of heredity, and the chief populariser of the ideas of Gregor Mendel following their...
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