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Definition of heritable in English: heritableadjective ˈhɛrɪtəb(ə)lˈhɛrədəb(ə)l 1Biology
(of a characteristic) transmissible from parent to offspring. 〔生〕（特性）可遗传的 intelligence is to some degree heritable Example sentencesExamples - This is hardly surprising, but it was also found that age at first reproduction is a heritable characteristic.
- The basic idea of natural selection is that a population of organisms can change over the generations if individuals having certain heritable traits leave more offspring than other individuals.
- In it he predicted that a large molecule carrying a genetic code would explain heritable characteristics.
- I assume that male quality is a heritable trait that determines female fitness from mating.
- One of the long-discussed questions of evolutionary biology is whether new heritable traits originate spontaneously and independently from the influence of external conditions.
2Law
(of property) capable of being inherited by heirs-at-law. 〔律〕（财产）可（由法定继承人）继承的。比较MOVABLE （义项2） heritable property was excluded from the valuation Compare with movable (sense 2 of the adjective) Example sentencesExamples - The Church of Scotland Trust is undertaking a review of all heritable property owned or leased on behalf of the Church of Scotland outwith Scotland.
- In practice, these estates were only rarely intended to become the heritable property of daughters or female relatives.
- In the Highlands, however, the system of heritable jurisdictions was intertwined with a distinctive set of social arrangements.
- Nobody has suggested that a ship is prima facie heritable and I do not think such a suggestion could reasonably be made.
- There is now a balance of fully L200,000 of cash in the hands of the managers, besides the immense stock of materials, and goods, and heritable property, all paid for, and the goods daily going off in great abundance.
Derivativesnounhɛrɪtəˈbɪlɪti He mentions a new book on IQ and the heritability of criminal tendencies, among other things. Example sentencesExamples - Both the accuracy and precision of the estimates of dominant effects can be increased with increased sample size and heritability.
- Population geneticists dismiss such gene frequencies by convention and so count digit number as having no heritability.
- If you look at the heritability of depression, it's a similar kind of story.
- The US researchers are now studying the heritability of these marker genes.
adverb The expression of a serotype is clonally transmitted, which means that once a change in serotype is effected, it is heritably transmitted to progeny and serotypes can reproduce stably for many generations. Example sentencesExamples - Paramutation describes a process whereby expression of one allele is heritably altered by another.
- It has been previously reported that the suppression-of-variegation activity of a Y chromosome may be heritably modified in a particular genetic background.
- Epigenetic regulatory mechanisms heritably alter patterns of gene expression without changes in DNA sequence.
- One section of a species may be heritably equipped to reproduce in one extreme part of its range, and another section differently equipped to deal with another extreme part of the range.
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French heriter 'inherit', from ecclesiastical Latin hereditare, from Latin heres, hered- 'heir'. Definition of heritable in US English: heritableadjectiveˈhɛrədəb(ə)lˈherədəb(ə)l 1Biology
(of a characteristic) transmissible from parent to offspring. 〔生〕（特性）可遗传的 intelligence is to some degree heritable Example sentencesExamples - In it he predicted that a large molecule carrying a genetic code would explain heritable characteristics.
- I assume that male quality is a heritable trait that determines female fitness from mating.
- The basic idea of natural selection is that a population of organisms can change over the generations if individuals having certain heritable traits leave more offspring than other individuals.
- One of the long-discussed questions of evolutionary biology is whether new heritable traits originate spontaneously and independently from the influence of external conditions.
- This is hardly surprising, but it was also found that age at first reproduction is a heritable characteristic.
2Law
(of property) capable of being inherited by heirs-at-law. 〔律〕（财产）可（由法定继承人）继承的。比较MOVABLE （义项2） heritable property was excluded from the valuation Compare with movable (sense 2 of the adjective) Example sentencesExamples - There is now a balance of fully L200,000 of cash in the hands of the managers, besides the immense stock of materials, and goods, and heritable property, all paid for, and the goods daily going off in great abundance.
- Nobody has suggested that a ship is prima facie heritable and I do not think such a suggestion could reasonably be made.
- In the Highlands, however, the system of heritable jurisdictions was intertwined with a distinctive set of social arrangements.
- In practice, these estates were only rarely intended to become the heritable property of daughters or female relatives.
- The Church of Scotland Trust is undertaking a review of all heritable property owned or leased on behalf of the Church of Scotland outwith Scotland.
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French heriter ‘inherit’, from ecclesiastical Latin hereditare, from Latin heres, hered- ‘heir’. |