line of descent
Ancestral succession path
A line of descent is the sequence of ancestors or descendants connecting one person to another through parent-child relationships.
The term appears in genealogy, inheritance law, and biology: She traced her line of descent back to the Mayflower.
A direct line of descent runs through parents and children; collateral lines branch through siblings.
Science of hereditary transmission
- heredityGenetic trait transmission
- DNAHereditary code molecule
- genesUnits of heredity
- chromosomesGene-bearing nuclear structures
inheritance · consanguinity · blood · kinship · biological · traits · relatives · family
What's passed down
- traditionsLong-established customs passed down
- birthrightEntitlement from origin
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
- customsTraditional practices or import taxes
patrimony · culture · heirlooms · ancestry · historical · familial · ancestral · endowment
Those from whom one descends
- forebearsAncestral family members
- progenitorsOriginal ancestors of a lineage
- family treeChart of ancestors
- progenyOne's biological descendants
offspring · generations · forefathers · foremothers · genealogist · kinfolk · kindred · posterity
genetics
Science of hereditary transmission
chromosomes · inheritance · consanguinity · blood · kinship · biological · traits · relatives · family · parentage
legacy
What's passed down
- traditionsLong-established customs passed down
- birthrightEntitlement from origin
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
customs · patrimony · culture · heirlooms · ancestry · historical · familial · ancestral · endowment · bequest
ancestors
Those from whom one descends
- forebearsAncestral family members
- progenitorsOriginal ancestors of a lineage
- family treeChart of ancestors
progeny · offspring · generations · forefathers · foremothers · genealogist · kinfolk · kindred · posterity · heirs
house
Residential building
throne · reign · succession · heirs · kingdom · empire · ruling · crown · nobility · monarch
breed
Cultivated variety of animal
dam · purebred · registry · breeding · studbook · bloodstock · thoroughbred · pureblood · champion · show
- lineageancestry, royal dynasties, bloodline, noble houses, dynasty
- royal successionthrone, succession, order of succession, succession order, crown succession
line, lines, lined, lining, liner, liners, linear, lineage, lineages