How to Use heredity in a Sentence

heredity

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  • Heredity plays no part in the disease.
  • When asked her secrets to a long life, one is heredity.
    — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • At the dawn of the 20th century, scientists came to limit the word heredity to genes.
    — Jennifer Raff, New York Times, 31 May 2018
  • There is much to be said for heredity’s tethers, and for the writers who unravel them.
    — Julian Lucas, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2017
  • There are some factors that help a musician get started – and heredity could be one of them.
    — Bryan Nichols, The Conversation, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Of the different causes of hair loss, heredity is the most common culprit.
    — Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Special to the Courier Journal In the past, little was known about the cause of heart disease, and the belief was that bad heredity and aging were key factors.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Even Riverdale's creator has teased the significance of the twins' heredity on Twitter.
    — Hanna Lustig, Teen Vogue, 1 Oct. 2018
  • Factors like diet, heredity, and thyroid levels can play a role as well.
    — Amanda MacMillan / Health, Time, 30 Oct. 2017
  • The impact of heredity on life span has turned out to be about as big as its influence on developing high blood pressure.
    — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 16 June 2017
  • Science had just begun its quest to discern the mysteries of heredity.
    — Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Aug. 2017
  • Did Kim, a third-generation heredity leader, think Trump would share his love for lavish gestures and things grandiose?
    — Kim Tong-Hyung, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
  • Did Kim, a third-generation heredity leader, think Mr. Trump would share his love for lavish gestures and things grandiose?
    — CBS News, 2 June 2018
  • The structure gave evidence that DNA is the carrier of heredity and showed how the molecule replicates itself.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 July 2017
  • Mengele saw himself as a serious man of science, plumbing the mysteries of heredity to perfect the Volk.
    — David Margolick, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Yet mitochondria never gave up their own form of heredity.
    — Carl Zimmer, STAT, 30 May 2018
  • Our interest in heredity is testament to a deep human concern with generations past, and those yet to come.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 19 June 2018
  • Maybe not The study offers some hints that previous estimates of how much your genes impact your longevity may have given heredity a little too much credit.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Because there were so many connections, even among very distant relatives, the team was able to rule out the effects of people living in the same household and look for patterns that could be attributed to heredity.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2018
  • To be clear, the idea that heredity may explain a giraffe’s spots — uniquely arrayed upon each individual and unchanging over its life — is an old one.
    — Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 2 Oct. 2018
  • Some variations helped organisms survive and reproduce, and those were passed down, thanks to heredity, to the next generation.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 Nov. 2016
  • In Mountcashel’s time, the popular understanding of heredity didn’t extend much beyond the theory that men planted seeds in the wombs of women, where they were nurtured.
    — Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books, 7 Mar. 2019
  • Powerful because of the question of heredity and identity, which is a central question that animates this book.
    — Martin Schoeller, National Geographic, 24 July 2016
  • Each of us was—and is—a unique combination of heredity and environment that could never have happened before or again, and each of us has access to the full circle of human qualities.
    — Yohana Desta, HWD, 10 Oct. 2017
  • In the interview, this descent into tribalism plays out as a grotesque return to 19th century chatter about heredity.
    — William Saletan, Slate Magazine, 17 Jan. 2017
  • In their book, Nelkin and Lindee looked back at the eugenics movement earlier in the century and saw thematic links between the 1990s obsession with genetics and those old notions of heredity.
    — Libby Copeland, Time, 2 Mar. 2020
  • How does this sharing affect our current conception of heredity?
    — Jennifer Raff, New York Times, 31 May 2018
  • But is also has these very real questions and details about family and memory and history and heredity.
    — Myrna Petlicki, chicagotribune.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Critics scoff at this as being misleading at best, as generally peerage titles are conferred by heredity or by the monarchy.
    — Robert McCoppin, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2018
  • Such a critique of capitalism quickly becomes a prisoner of its own heredity.
    — Matthew Karp, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021

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