Heredity vs. Environment — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Heredity and Environment
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Heredity
Heredity, also called inheritance or biological inheritance, is the passing on of traits from parents to their offspring; either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction, the offspring cells or organisms acquire the genetic information of their parents. Through heredity, variations between individuals can accumulate and cause species to evolve by natural selection.
Environment
The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates
Survival in an often hostile environment
Heredity
The genetic transmission of characteristics from parent to offspring.
Environment
The natural world, as a whole or in a particular geographical area, especially as affected by human activity
The impact of pesticides on the environment
A parliamentary environment committee
Heredity
The sum of characteristics and associated potentialities transmitted genetically to an individual organism.
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Environment
The totality of the natural world, often excluding humans
"Technology, of course, lies at the heart of man's relationship with the environment" (Mark Hertsgaard).
Heredity
Hereditary transmission of the physical and genetic qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants.
Environment
A subset of the natural world; an ecosystem
The coastal environment.
Heredity
Hereditary transmission of the physical and psychical qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants. See Pangenesis.
Environment
The combination of external physical conditions that affect and influence the growth, development, behavior, and survival of organisms
"Conditions in a lion's environment ... can drive it to hunt people" (Philip Caputo).
Heredity
The biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next
Environment
The complex of social and cultural conditions affecting the nature of an individual person or community.
Heredity
The total of inherited attributes
Environment
The general set of conditions or circumstances
A terrible environment for doing business.
Environment
The entire set of conditions under which one operates a computer, as it relates to the hardware, operating platform, or operating system.
Environment
An area of a computer's memory used by the operating system and some programs to store certain variables to which they need frequent access.
Environment
The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
Environment
The natural world or ecosystem.
Environment
All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
Environment
A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
Environment
(computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
That program uses the Microsoft Windows environment.
Environment
(programming) The environment of a function at a point during the execution of a program is the set of identifiers in the function's scope and their bindings at that point.
Environment
(computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.
Environment
Act of environing; state of being environed.
Environment
That which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions, influences, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development.
It is no friendly environment, this of thine.
Environment
The totality of surrounding conditions;
He longed for the comfortable environment of his livingroom
Environment
The area in which something exists or lives;
The country--the flat agricultural surround
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