biological inheritance
Traits from parents
Biological inheritance is the transmission of genetic traits from parents to offspring.
Height, eye color, and susceptibility to certain diseases pass through biological inheritance.
The term distinguishes genetic transmission from cultural inheritance (learned behaviors) and legal inheritance (property and assets): She attributed her musical talent to biological inheritance rather than training.
- genesUnits of heredity
- natural selectionDifferential reproductive success
- survival of the fittestAdaptive advantage perpetuates species
- DNAHereditary code molecule
- double helixTwo intertwined spirals
genetic code · alleles · embryogenesis · passing down · family tree · epigenetics · gene pool · speciation · mutation · genotype · chromosomes · gene flow · common ancestor · bloodline · blood relative · fitness · genetic drift · trait
biological inheritancelearned behavior
Action acquired through experience
acquired traits · environmental influence · nurture · conditioning · socialization
biological inheritancecultural inheritance
Traditions received from ancestors
social learning · oral tradition · legal inheritance · teaching · imitation
biological inheritancenurture
Support growth and development
environment · behaviorism · blank slate · tabula rasa · empiricism
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