Noun
Hereditary transmission of the physical and psychical qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants. See Pangenesis.
Source: Webster's dictionaryLife consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us. Harry Emerson Fosdick
Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other. Laurence J. Peter
You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life. Dale Carnegie
A mutation in a DNA molecule within a chromosome of a skin cell in my index finger has no influence on heredity. Fingers are not involved, at least directly, in the propagation of the species. Carl Sagan
Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation. Ernst Haeckel
Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery. James Mark Baldwin