Heredity
Part of speech: noun
Definition: 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.
Inheritance
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The passing of title to an estate upon death.That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.(biology) The hereditary passing of biological attributes from ancestors to their offspring.In object-oriented programming, the mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.