hereditary
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Hereditary: These peers inherit their titles from a parent.
From BBC • Sep. 5, 2024
And just one year before the birth of Vance’s beloved Mamaw, Adolph Hitler enacted the Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases, which American doctors, including Dr. DeJarnette, praised highly.
From Salon • Jul. 20, 2024
These genes and variants mirror those in the program's Hereditary Disease Risk research results offered to participants.
From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2024
Hereditary deafness is the latest condition scientists are targeting with gene therapy, which is already approved to treat illnesses such as sickle cell disease and severe hemophilia.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 24, 2024
He had originally proposed the concept in Hereditary Genius as early as 1869—thirty years before the rediscovery of Mendel—but left the idea unexplored, concentrating, instead, on the mechanism of heredity.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing hereditary
100 SAT Words Beginning with "H"
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"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"Democracy in America, Vol. 1" by Alexis de Tocqueville, Introduction–Chapter 5
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