yes
The term hand-to-hand can be used to indicate that something is passed along a line of people. A handoff is from one person to another (but usually doesn't involve a line of people). When the item passed is a bucket, the term "bucket brigade" is sometimes used, though this is very dated.
yes they can.
It cannot be passed from person to person.
Gossip usually starts by someone telling someone something, that person telling another person, that person telling another and so on. As the story is being passed on, people change it a little, sort of like in whisper down the lane.
It is not passed on from parent to child. It is an error in meiosis.
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Needles & sex
It is said to be communicable or contagious.
If there was such a thing as an Oral Tradition, it was passed on by one person telling the story to another person. The second person would learn the story with its details and then pass that on to a third person.
There thousands that are passed from one person to another. Another name for them is infectious diseases.
It's pronounced 'kon-tay-jus' - the word means something that's easily passed form one person to another (especially in relation to diseases).
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