This presses the. urethra together and reduces the loss of urine. due to stress incontinence. It gives extra. strength to the urethra, which does not open. until you want to pass urine. â  Some drugs such as sedatives can affect how. the bladder works.
Heredity is the passing of phenotypic traits from parents to their offspring, either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction. This is the process by which an offspring cell or organism acquires or becomes predisposed to the characteristics of its parent cell or organism. Through heredity, variations exhibited by individuals can accumulate and cause some species to evolve through the natural selection of specific phenotype traits.
heredity. n, pl-ties. 1. (Biology) the transmission from one generation to another of genetic factors that determine individual characteristics: responsible for the resemblances between parents and offspring. 2. (Biology) the sum total of the inherited factors or their characteristics in an organism. geneagenetic, adj. genetics. 1. Biology. the science of heredity, studying resemblances and differences in related organisms and the mechanisms which explain these phenomena. 2. the genetic properties and phenomena of an organism. â geneticist, n.