inheritable

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Scientists in Japan have identified a virus that selectively kills males — and it happens to be inheritable, creating generation upon generation of all females.

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2023

The nation itself held on to the mineral rights of the land, granting each member an inheritable “headright” to the share of the nation’s mineral wealth.

From National Geographic • Sep. 15, 2023

After decades of research, gene therapies have begun reshaping the treatment of cancers and rare inheritable diseases with medicines that can modify or correct mutations embedded in people’s genetic code.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2022

Any genetic modifications that result from germ-line interventions are inheritable and therefore have the potential to become part of the larger human gene pool.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

With man peculiarities in the milk and second teeth, of which I have received the details, are inheritable, and with man longevity is often transmitted.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles