How to Use heredity in a Sentence

heredity

noun
  • Heredity plays no part in the disease.
  • There are some factors that help a musician get started – and heredity could be one of them.
    — Bryan Nichols, The Conversation, 16 Aug. 2022
  • There is much to be said for heredity’s tethers, and for the writers who unravel them.
    — Julian Lucas, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Factors like diet, heredity, and thyroid levels can play a role as well.
    — Health.com, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Factors like diet, heredity, and thyroid levels can play a role as well.
    — Amanda MacMillan / Health, Time, 30 Oct. 2017
  • So the book ends a far sight from where it’s begun, having sloughed off simplistic questions about heredity.
    — Colin Dickey, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Of the different causes of hair loss, heredity is the most common culprit.
    — Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Science had just begun its quest to discern the mysteries of heredity.
    — Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Aug. 2017
  • Even so, the impact of age and bad heredity can be greatly reduced by following a healthy lifestyle.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 12 Sep. 2024
  • The impact of heredity on life span has turned out to be about as big as its influence on developing high blood pressure.
    — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 16 June 2017
  • At the dawn of the 20th century, scientists came to limit the word heredity to genes.
    — Jennifer Raff, New York Times, 31 May 2018
  • How does this sharing affect our current conception of heredity?
    — Jennifer Raff, New York Times, 31 May 2018
  • To truly understand genes and heredity, researchers had to learn to read the DNA code.
    — Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Our interest in heredity is testament to a deep human concern with generations past, and those yet to come.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 19 June 2018
  • In cancer, the interplay between environment, heredity and random chance is a bit like pulling the lever on a slot machine.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2017
  • Even Riverdale's creator has teased the significance of the twins' heredity on Twitter.
    — Hanna Lustig, Teen Vogue, 1 Oct. 2018
  • In short, heredity advancement driven by desire.
    — D. Scott Schmid, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Did Kim, a third-generation heredity leader, think Trump would share his love for lavish gestures and things grandiose?
    — Kim Tong-Hyung, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
  • Such a critique of capitalism quickly becomes a prisoner of its own heredity.
    — Matthew Karp, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
  • But is also has these very real questions and details about family and memory and history and heredity.
    — Myrna Petlicki, chicagotribune.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Central to Burbank’s thesis was his belief that environment mattered as much, if not more, than heredity.
    — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 25 June 2026
  • Powerful because of the question of heredity and identity, which is a central question that animates this book.
    — Martin Schoeller, National Geographic, 24 July 2016
  • Mengele saw himself as a serious man of science, plumbing the mysteries of heredity to perfect the Volk.
    — David Margolick, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Critics scoff at this as being misleading at best, as generally peerage titles are conferred by heredity or by the monarchy.
    — Robert McCoppin, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2018
  • Some variations helped organisms survive and reproduce, and those were passed down, thanks to heredity, to the next generation.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 Nov. 2016
  • To be clear, the idea that heredity may explain a giraffe’s spots — uniquely arrayed upon each individual and unchanging over its life — is an old one.
    — Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 2 Oct. 2018
  • Maybe not The study offers some hints that previous estimates of how much your genes impact your longevity may have given heredity a little too much credit.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2018
  • In the interview, this descent into tribalism plays out as a grotesque return to 19th century chatter about heredity.
    — William Saletan, Slate Magazine, 17 Jan. 2017
  • Special to the Courier Journal In the past, little was known about the cause of heart disease, and the belief was that bad heredity and aging were key factors.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Each of us was—and is—a unique combination of heredity and environment that could never have happened before or again, and each of us has access to the full circle of human qualities.
    — Yohana Desta, HWD, 10 Oct. 2017

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