hereditary pattern

Questions about hereditary pattern

What does hereditary pattern mean?

hereditary pattern means "(genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents".

What is another word for hereditary pattern?

Close synonyms include inheritance. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hereditary pattern a common word?

hereditary pattern is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.