inheritance

(in-her‘it-ans). The act of inheriting or the thing inherited. a mph i go no us i., inheritance of characteristics from both parents. ho- mochronous i., inheritance of characteristics which appear in the offspring at the same age as they appeared in the parent. homo tropic i., the inheritance of acquired characteristics. men-. deli an i. See Mendel’s law, under Jaw. mosaic i., inheritance in which the paternal influence is dominant in one group of cells and the maternal in another, as the inheritance of a streaked coloration where the parents are of different color.