Tools and Materials. 1  Twelve or more table tennis balls. 2  One different-colored table tennis ball. 3  Wire basket. 4  Cardboard cut to fit over the basket opening. 5  Tape. 6  A hair dryer (set to the coolest setting), fan, or other blower.
hereditary definition. A descriptive term for conditions capable of being transmitted from parent to offspring through the genes. The term hereditary is applied to diseases such as hemophilia and characteristics such as the tendency toward baldness that pass from parents to children. Word of the Day.
inheritance. The acquisition of traits, characteristics and disorders from parents to their children by transmission of genetic information. Genes come in pairs: one originating from the father, the other from the mother. If an individual presents only the hereditary characteristics determined by one gene of the pair on an autosomal chromosome, that gene is called dominant. Conditions caused by such genes are said to show autosomal dominant inheritance.