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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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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Diabetes (redirect from Diabetes and heredity)
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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Ackermann set theory (redirect from Axiom of heredity)
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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Non-Mendelian inheritance (redirect from Heredity transmission)
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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Boveri–Sutton chromosome theory (redirect from Chromosome theory of heredity)
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 (section Heredity)
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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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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Telegony (inheritance) (redirect from Telegony (heredity))
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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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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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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Alexander Graham Bell (section Heredity and genetics)
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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Heritability of autism (redirect from Heredity of autism)
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 (redirect from The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness)
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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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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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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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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Hereditary Health Court (redirect from Court of Heredity)
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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Nature versus nurture (redirect from Heredity and environment)
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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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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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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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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Lamarckism (section Lamarck's discussion of heredity)
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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