HEREDITY Synonyms

• a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth

• an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture)

• the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms

• (law) any property that is considered by law or custom as inseparable from an inheritance is inherited with that inheritance

• something that has been in a family for generations

• hereditary succession to a title or an office or property

• that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner

• (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents

• any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors

• (law) a gift of personal property by will

• a church endowment

• an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture)

• a following of one thing after another in time

• a group of people or things arranged or following in order

• the action of following in order

• (ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established

• acquisition of property by descent or by will

• an inherited pattern of thought or action

• a specific practice of long standing

• the act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted

• communication by means of transmitted signals

• the fraction of radiant energy that passes through a substance

• an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted

• the gears that transmit power from an automobile engine via the driveshaft to the live axle

• the total of inherited attributes