Definition of Heredity

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Heredity

Hereditary transmission of the physical and psychical qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants. See Pangenesis.

Related Definitions:

And, Biological, By, Hereditary, In, Law, Living, Of, Offspring, Pangenesis, Physical, Psychical, Qualities, Repeat, See, Tend, The, Their, To, Transmission, Which

Heredity Quotations

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this.
E. Stanley Jones

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.
Paul Tournier

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
Laurence J. Peter

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.
James Mark Baldwin

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.
John B. S. Haldane

Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment.
Kenneth Scott Latourette

The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.
G. Stanley Hall

We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself.
Paul Dudley White

Heredity Translations

heredity in Dutch is erfelijkheid, overerfelijkheid
heredity in German is Erblichkeit, Vererbung
heredity in Norwegian is arvelighet

Quotes