inheritable

Example Sentences

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A man fathered 15 children after advertising his sperm on social media despite having an inheritable condition, a court has heard.

From BBC

“I don’t find it an obligatory connection. There are members of the family that say, as Henry Louis Gates says, guilt is not inheritable,” Pupke said.

From Washington Post

The ability to identify inheritable diseases aside, tying your identity to a double strand of chemical bases seems like risky business to me.

From Salon

No more attempting to learn which components allow viruses to efficiently infect or replicate within human cells, or to devise inheritable ways to evade immunity.

From Washington Post

Sanger advocated sterilization for the “insane and feeble-minded” and those with “inheritable or transmissible diseases.”

From Washington Post