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Furthermore, by the 14th century BC, the pharaohs created a separate military caste which was basically hereditary in its nature.

The term gene was introduced later, in 1909, by the Danish biologist Wilhelm Johannsen to refer to the unit of hereditary material.

They respected the ritual specialists as guardians of ancient texts, the Vedas, and the priests gradually formed a hereditary class, the brahmins.

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The PIEZ01 and PIEZ02 genes that Patapoutian discovered have also been implicated in a number of hereditary diseases involving proprioception.

Much of this unwritten Constitution had deep roots in hereditary political powers of kings and noblemen.

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That surely was the sentiment of more than a few of the hereditary distillers in bourbon country.

This son has begun thrumming the strings of hereditary determinism, and is finding them holding taut.

Some naive types might say that this indicates an enormous hereditary factor as an explanation of successful coin-flipping.

After 33 years of working in a factory, Nowlin had developed a hereditary eye disease called Retinitis pigmentosa.

The public ceremony unveiling the wife of the newly anointed hereditary dictator of North Korea was anything but traditional.

Hereditary legislation in the twentieth century and the most civilized country in the world!

Membership in the Virginia Council was considered a position of the greatest prestige and was almost an hereditary position.

Being the hereditary Datto, the inhabitants of the valley generally sympathized with him, at least passively.

This the chapel owes to the residence of the royal family, whose passion and talent for music are hereditary.

No family history of epilepsy, insanity, nervous or other hereditary disorders in 59 per cent.

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On this page you'll find 36 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hereditary, such as: genetic, inborn, transmitted, ancestral, bequeathed, and family.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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