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HEREDITARY PATTERN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents
Synonyms:
hereditary pattern; inheritance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("hereditary pattern" is a kind of...):
genetic endowment; heredity (the total of inherited attributes)
Domain category:
genetic science; genetics (the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hereditary pattern"):
ancestry; derivation; filiation; lineage (inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline)
gene linkage; linkage ((genetics) traits that tend to be inherited together as a consequence of an association between their genes; all of the genes of a given chromosome are linked (where one goes they all go))
X-linked dominant inheritance (hereditary pattern in which a dominant gene on the X chromosome causes a characteristic to be manifested in the offspring)
X-linked recessive inheritance (hereditary pattern in which a recessive gene on the X chromosome results in the manifestation of characteristics in male offspring and a carrier state in female offspring)
