Heritable [adjective]

Definition of Heritable:

inherited; transmitted at birth

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Sentence/Example of Heritable:

Churchland and I recently talked about how brain differences, which are underwritten by differences in our genes, shape our moral attitudes — and how those can be highly heritable.

Gene editing to make heritable changes in human DNA isn’t yet safe and effective enough to make gene-edited babies, an international scientific commission says.

The father divides them as heritable property into equal portions for bequest to his children.

And so, again, the lords rights under the commendation seem to constitute an alienable and heritable seignory.

Already the process has begun which will make it applicable to every person who has heritable rights in land.

We know that taken individually the lawmen of Lincoln were holders of heritable franchises, of sake and soke.

True that the rights conferred upon them are not restrained within the compass of three lives but are heritable ad infinitum.

In the middle ages he who allows land to descend twice has often enough allowed it to become heritable for good and all.

But, as in general a farmer would have no heritable rights, holding in fee may be contrasted with holding in farm.

To be given a body untainted by any heritable disease, uncontaminated by any of the racial poisons.