Heredity

A property of a space which is also true of each of its subspaces. Being "first-countable" is hereditary, but having a given genus is not.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Heredity." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Heredity.html

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