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Inheritance Systems

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[Revised entry by Ehud Lamm on April 26, 2026.
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Organisms inherit various kinds of developmental information and cues from their parents (see entries on developmental biology and theories of biological development). The study of inheritance systems is aimed at identifying and classifying the various mechanisms and processes of heredity, the types of hereditary information that are passed on by each (by those...

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