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erfelijkheid — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • heredity noun The passing of physical or genetic traits from parents to their children.
  • inheritance noun Money, property, or possessions passed to someone after a person's death.

Senses

erfelijkheid is used for these senses in English:

  • heredity 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.
  • heritability (countable, genetics) The ratio of the genetic variance of a population to its phenotypic variance; i.e. the proportion of variability that is genetic in origin
  • inheritance (biology, genetic algorithms) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
  • inheritedness The state or quality of being inherited.

inheritance — full definition

  1. noun Money, property, or possessions passed to someone after a person's death.
  2. noun A trait passed down biologically from parent to offspring.

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