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How To Use heritable In A Sentence

• In modern times, they are generally alienable, devisable and inheritable.
• By making a will containing such provisions as you see fit and ensuring your estate consists of heritable property only, you can disinherit your children.
• 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.
• He does not seem to believe in any heritable effects on our behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
• A tame animal does not pass that tameness onto its offspring; taming is not a heritable, genetic change, and there is no simple way to discover when a hominid first tamed another species.
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• A trait or disease is called heritable if monozygotic twins are more similar to each other than dizygotic twins. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
• There is nothing to show that the inheritable portion of the full original thickness was not gained by natural selection rather than by the directly inherited effect of use; and the latter, being cumulative and indiscriminative in its action, would apparently have made the sole very much thicker and harder than it is. Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin
• In the post-genome era, disease gene mapping using dense genetic markers has become an important tool for dissecting complex inheritable diseases.
• In some States he descended as realty, in others as personalty, while in others still, he constituted a separate kind of heritable estate, which was especially provided for in the canons of descent and statutes regulating administration. Bricks without Straw A Novel