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

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