Heredity is an English word with synonyms like property. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Heredity in a sentence
Heredity meaning
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.
Synonyms of Heredity
Using Heredity
- The main meaning on this page is: 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.
- Useful related words include: organic process, biological process, genetic endowment, property.
- In the example corpus, heredity often appears in combinations such as: of heredity, and heredity, heredity and.
Context around Heredity
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 8 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Heredity
- In this selection, "heredity" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, genetic, cultural, experimental, violated, age and describes stand out and add context to how "heredity" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include alive obtained heredity and and cultural heredity and to. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "heredity" sits close to words such as aachen, abayomi and abbots, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with heredity
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He instead believed that any body, once alive, obtained heredity. (10 words)
Epidemiologists once insisted that genetic heredity was not a factor in cancer. (12 words)
He then conceived the idea of heredity units, which he called "factors". (12 words)
Epigenetics is the science of changes to organisms and heredity that are found outside the genetic code of the DNA sequence itself, usually caused by changes to gene expression — in other words, which genes are turned “on” or “off” in each and every cell. (44 words)
A 1939 article in the Journal of Heredity describes two offspring of a fertile mare mule named "Old Bec", which was owned at the time by the A&M College of Texas (now Texas A&M University ) in the late 1920s. (41 words)
Hippocrates proposed that heredity was important as a cause, described worse outcomes if the disease presents at an early age, and made note of the physical characteristics as well as the social shame associated with it. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
There were also scientists who speculated about the role of genetics and heredity.
This song actually veers into slam territory, as does "Heredity Violated" and moments of other songs.
Type 2 diabetes is a common chronic condition that's influenced by numerous factors, including heredity, age, and body weight.
Epidemiologists once insisted that genetic heredity was not a factor in cancer.
Epigenetics is the science of changes to organisms and heredity that are found outside the genetic code of the DNA sequence itself, usually caused by changes to gene expression — in other words, which genes are turned “on” or “off” in each and every cell.
A 1939 article in the Journal of Heredity describes two offspring of a fertile mare mule named "Old Bec", which was owned at the time by the A&M College of Texas (now Texas A&M University ) in the late 1920s.
As historian George Stocking noted, however, Boas's main project was to distinguish between biological and cultural heredity, and to focus on the cultural processes that he believed had the greatest influence over social life.
As Morgan had dismissed both evolutionary theories, he was seeking to prove De Vries' mutation theory with his experimental heredity work.
At the time that Darwin wrote, the principles underlying heredity and variation were poorly understood.
Fatimid dynasty, found in Fustat, Egypt. Brooklyn Museum Unlike western European governments in the era, advancement in Fatimid state offices was based more on merit than on heredity.
He believed that form was achieved for a purpose, citing the regularity of heredity in species as proof.
He divided the territory into sanjaks or districts, and, making no attempt to interfere with the principle of heredity, installed the local chiefs as governors.
He instead believed that any body, once alive, obtained heredity.
He then conceived the idea of heredity units, which he called "factors".
He was initially skeptical of Mendel's laws of heredity (as well as the related chromosomal theory of sex determination), which were being considered as a possible basis for natural selection.
He was in search of a model organism to study genetic heredity and required a species that could randomly acquire genetic mutation that would visibly manifest as morphological changes in the adult animal.
Hippocrates proposed that heredity was important as a cause, described worse outcomes if the disease presents at an early age, and made note of the physical characteristics as well as the social shame associated with it.
However, he also maintained that Herrnstein and Murray overestimated the role of heredity in determining intelligence differences.
In 1873, August Weismann postulated the equivalence of the maternal and paternal germ cells for heredity.
In Brazil, people are classified by appearance, not heredity. citation Scholars disagree over the effects of social status on racial classifications in Brazil.
Common combinations with heredity
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of heredity 14×
- and heredity 4×
- heredity and 4×
- heredity was 3×
- on heredity 3×
- genetic heredity 2×
- heredity in 2×
- heredity were 2×
- heredity of 2×
- heredity at 2×