Sentences with phrase «heredity passed»
Gene - the functional and physical unit of heredity passed from parent to offspring.
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Epigenetics: The Ultimate Mystery of Inheritance By Richard C. Francis (W. W. Norton) Researchers once considered DNA to be the exclusive carrier of heredity, but recently they have discovered that certain life experiences — smoking before puberty, say, or a high - stress pregnancy — can trigger cellular changes that get passed along to future generations.