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HEREDITARY PATTERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hereditary pattern mean? 

HEREDITARY PATTERN (noun)
  The noun HEREDITARY PATTERN has 1 sense:

1. (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parentsplay

  Familiarity information: HEREDITARY PATTERN used as a noun is very rare.


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HEREDITARY PATTERN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

hereditary pattern; inheritance

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)


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