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Answer for the clue "(genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents ", 11 letters:
inheritance

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In genetic algorithms , inheritance is the ability of modeled objects to mate , mutate (similar to biological mutation ), and propagate their problem solving genes to the next generation , in order to produce an evolved solution to a particular problem. ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES inheritance tax (= tax paid on money, property etc that you receive from someone when they die ) ▪ Inheritance tax applies to the total value of the deceased’s assets. inheritance tax COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., enheritaunce "fact of receiving by hereditary succession;" early 15c. as "that which is inherited," from Anglo-French enheritance , Old French enheritaunce , from enheriter (see inherit ). Heritance "act of inheriting" is from mid-15c.

Usage examples of inheritance.

As the points of affinity of the bizcacha to Marsupials are believed to be real and not merely adaptive, they are due on my theory to inheritance in common.

The kingdoms of Transoxiana and Persia were the proper field which he labored to cultivate and adorn, as the perpetual inheritance of his family.

I have my inheritance from Lady Agatine Slegin, and he has his earnings from his years as a Minstrel.

Why a top officer of the powerful Bank of Spica should want to quiz Floyt about his inheritance, then try to shoot him and Alacrity, was still a puzzle.

Uncle Ames was forbidden by that same will to give them any, under threat of losing his own inheritance.

Even if they were put aside, that attainder passed against the Duke of Clarence was an insufficient reason to deprive his son of his lawful inheritance.

The farm was in profit, the rents from the village brought in sufficient revenue to see to repairs, and his inheritance from the Basher had left him a wealthy man.

I am much inclined to think, that the right succession or inheritance much depends on those connexions of the imagination, and that the relation to a former proprietor begetting a relation to the object, is the cause why the property is transferred to a man after the death of his kinsman.

Nothing prevents a beneficiary from rejecting his right to an inheritance.

Bondmen and bondmaids, as property, without limitation of time, and transmissible as inheritance to children, might be bought of surrounding nations.

The answer she thus gave was the answer of a conservative bourgeoise, who held that it would be more just if the inheritance should go to an illegitimate scion of the house rather than to a stranger.

They were all creaking floorboards in the cellarage of the brain, inheritances from our eo-human days.

Gabriel to find a wife, and a rich one at that, now that he could not count on the Clyme inheritance.

The cuneiform script was an inheritance from the non-Semitic predecessors of the Semites in Babylonia, and in this script the characters represented words as well as sounds.

I suppose that, all alone, with a baby on the way and no inheritance, she took what she could get, in this case, a job as a waitress in a restaurant in Dingle Town.