ärftlighet — meaning in English
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English meaning
- heredity noun The passing of physical or genetic traits from parents to their children.
Senses
ärftlighet 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