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

With a genetic predisposition, the inheritable mutations are frequently found in DNA repair genes.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 10, 2023

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

In face of these facts it cannot be denied that the modified action of a part produces an inheritable effect—be the nature of that effect what it may.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert