Historical Examples. 1  Folk of the land it had lapped in flame, with bale and brand. 2  Over these they lapped thinner ones, which gave us great pain. 3  So I lapped thee in blankets and brought thee, to-morrow is a se'nnight. 4  The stores of corn and fruit were lapped by millions of crimson tongues.
Heredity is the genetic information passing for 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.
Only apple trees produce apples, and only lions can make more lions. Biological inheritance or heredity (from the Latin heres, heir) is the process by which an offspring cell or organism acquires or becomes predisposed to characteristics of its parent cell or organism. The transmission of traits from one generation to the next is called heredity.