| He said that while there are a few indigenous reasons like genes, heredity etc for obesity, there are more exogenous reasons for the problem. |
| The social position of each individual is fixed by heredity and not by personal qualifications and material considerations. |
| Since the 1860s Mendelian genetics has recognized that many phenotypic traits are related to functional units of heredity. |
| The only known contributory factors to prostate cancer are a fatty diet, and for testicular cancer, heredity. |
| The eugenicists believed Mendelian laws governed the heredity of human physiological traits and social traits. |
| But this doctrine that souls are acquired by heredity carried more physical implications than at least some Platonists could feel at ease with. |
