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- Inheritance
inheritance, n (genetics)
attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents [syn:
hereditary pattern]
Genetics
genetics, n : the branch
of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms [syn: genetic
science]
Genome
genome, n : the ordering of
genes in a haploid set of chromosomes of a particular organism; the full DNA
sequence of an organism; "the human genome contains approximately three
billion chemical base pairs"
Haploid
haploid, adj : of a cell or
organism having a single set of chromosomes [syn: haploidic, monoploid] [ant:
diploid, polyploid] n : (genetics) an organism or cell having only one
complete set of chromosomes
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