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

Sudden, inheritable changes were naturally selected, which included the fight or flight behavior.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 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