ancestry — Your ancestry is the fact that you are descended from certain people.
constitution — The constitution of a country or organization is the system of laws which formally states people's rights and duties.
inheritance — something that is or may be inherited; property passing at the owner's death to the heir or those entitled to succeed; legacy.
genetics — Biology. the science of heredity, dealing with resemblances and differences of related organisms resulting from the interaction of their genes and the environment.
eugenics — The science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics. Developed largely by Francis Galton as a method of improving the human race, it fell into disfavor only after the perversion of its doctrines by the Nazis.
