Blood and Heredity

Blood

Blood noun - The line of ancestors from whom a person is descended.

Usage example: the language expert was certain that a young woman with such an upper-class accent had to be of royal blood

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Heredity and blood are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Heredity" instead a noun "Blood".

Heredity noun - The biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next.

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Blood and heredity are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Blood" instead a noun "Heredity".

Nearby Word: hereditary

actual blood

actual heredity

This gets treated as In The Blood despite it just being a few drops of ingested liquid rather than actual heredity.

Source: In the Blood
Evilutionary Biologist / In the Blood: Inherent to the series is the concept that personality is as much a product of heredity as physiology — genetic engineering or just plain old controlled breeding can be used to give species universal traits.

Source: Literature / Known Space

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