inheritance

(in-her'i-tans) [L. her edit are, to inherit.] That which is inherited, the act of inheriting. alter'native i., (i) Men deli an inheritance; (2) Galton's term for an a umed form in which all the characters are derived from one parent. blend'ing Galton's term for that form in which the maternal and paternal characters appear to blend in the offspring, cri -cro i., Morgan's term for the transmi ion of the maternal characters to the sons and the paternal characters to the daughters, partic'ulate i., Men deli an i., that in which some characters are derived from one parent, others from the other.