hereditary pattern vs heredity

hereditary pattern and heredity both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hereditary pattern	Yes	No	No	No
heredity	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, heredity is a hypernym of hereditary pattern; that is, heredity is a word with a broader meaning than hereditary pattern:

hereditary pattern: (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents
heredity: the total of inherited attributes

Other hypernyms of hereditary pattern include genetic endowment.

hereditary pattern (noun)	heredity (noun)
(genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents	the total of inherited attributes
	the biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next