Hereditary
adjective
Something that is passed from parents to children, like genes or characteristics.
Blue eyes are a hereditary trait in their family.
Often appears as...
- hereditary disease
- hereditary trait
adjective
A position or title that is passed from a parent to a child when the parent dies.
The title of King is hereditary and passes to the eldest son.
Often appears as...
- hereditary title
- hereditary position
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Formal
adjective
In computing, a concept where properties or characteristics are passed from a 'parent' element to a 'child' element.
In object-oriented programming, classes can have hereditary relationships.
Often appears as...
- hereditary class
- hereditary relationship
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Technical
adjective
Something that is passed from parents to children, like genes or characteristics.
Blue eyes are a hereditary trait in their family.
Often appears as...
- hereditary disease
- hereditary trait
adjective
A position or title that is passed from a parent to a child when the parent dies.
The title of King is hereditary and passes to the eldest son.
Often appears as...
- hereditary title
- hereditary position
Usage tips
Formal
adjective
In computing, a concept where properties or characteristics are passed from a 'parent' element to a 'child' element.
In object-oriented programming, classes can have hereditary relationships.
Often appears as...
- hereditary class
- hereditary relationship
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Physical Traits
Hereditary often describes physical features passed through generations.
Their curly hair is a hereditary characteristic.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Visible
Hereditary traits aren't always apparent; some affect your health internally.
She inherited a hereditary blood disorder.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Guaranteed
Even if a trait is hereditary, it doesn't mean all children will get it.
Although intelligence is partially hereditary, it varies in each child.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Traits
Hereditary often describes physical features passed through generations.
Their curly hair is a hereditary characteristic.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Visible
Hereditary traits aren't always apparent; some affect your health internally.
She inherited a hereditary blood disorder.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Guaranteed
Even if a trait is hereditary, it doesn't mean all children will get it.
Although intelligence is partially hereditary, it varies in each child.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Traits
Hereditary often describes physical features passed through generations.
Their curly hair is a hereditary characteristic.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Visible
Hereditary traits aren't always apparent; some affect your health internally.
She inherited a hereditary blood disorder.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Guaranteed
Even if a trait is hereditary, it doesn't mean all children will get it.
Although intelligence is partially hereditary, it varies in each child.
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3 clues to understanding...
This is called synesthesia. Galton called it synesthesia, a mingling of the senses. In us, all the senses are distinct. These people muddle up their senses. Why does this happen? One of the two aspects of this problem are very intriguing. Synesthesia runs in families, so Galton said this is a hereditary basis, a genetic basis.
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Why is it so hard to...
Without their regular cues, the muscles waste away. Precisely what makes the motor neurons degenerate is the prevailing mystery of ALS. In hereditary cases, parents pass genetic mutations on to their children. Even then, ALS involves multiple genes with multiple possible impacts on motor neurons,
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What is obesity? - Mia...
And scarce resources, and a lack of access to healthy, affordable foods creates an even greater risk in disadvantaged communities. Yet, our genetic makeup also plays a part. Studies on families and on separated twins have shown a clear causal hereditary relationship to weight gain.
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Music as a refuge PIPE...
build this for you know if the makers are actually within the family so summer players and summer maker said it's a hereditary tradition both the makers and the players are within that well and do you have music that's available like on iTunes or yeah iTunes in the bookstore
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What will humans look...
And all of a sudden, what we're doing is we've got this multidimensional chess board where we can change human genetics by using viruses to attack things like AIDS, or we can change the gene code through gene therapy to do away with some hereditary diseases,
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History vs. Napoleon...
that kept some of the most important achievements of the revolution in freedom of religion abolition of hereditary privilege, and equality before the law for all men." "All men, indeed. He deprived women of the rights that the revolution had given them
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Why should you read “The...
In the novel, she interrogates the culture of her native India, including its social mores and colonial history. One of her focuses is the caste system, a way of classifying people by hereditary social class that is thousands of years old.
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I don't want children --...
like the risk of passing on hereditary illness, the danger of having to stop life-saving medication for the duration of your pregnancy, concern about overpopulation, your access to resources,
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Cara E. Yar Khan: The...
called hereditary inclusion body myopathy, or HIBM. It's a progressive muscle wasting disease that affects all of my muscles from head to toe. HIBM is very rare.
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Bringing Life-Changing...
there are many people affected by bilateral cataract at a very young age we call it a hereditary cataract just
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3 clues to understanding...
This is called synesthesia. Galton called it synesthesia, a mingling of the senses. In us, all the senses are distinct. These people muddle up their senses. Why does this happen? One of the two aspects of this problem are very intriguing. Synesthesia runs in families, so Galton said this is a hereditary basis, a genetic basis.
Video examples
Why is it so hard to...
Without their regular cues, the muscles waste away. Precisely what makes the motor neurons degenerate is the prevailing mystery of ALS. In hereditary cases, parents pass genetic mutations on to their children. Even then, ALS involves multiple genes with multiple possible impacts on motor neurons,
Video examples
What is obesity? - Mia...
And scarce resources, and a lack of access to healthy, affordable foods creates an even greater risk in disadvantaged communities. Yet, our genetic makeup also plays a part. Studies on families and on separated twins have shown a clear causal hereditary relationship to weight gain.
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Music as a refuge PIPE...
build this for you know if the makers are actually within the family so summer players and summer maker said it's a hereditary tradition both the makers and the players are within that well and do you have music that's available like on iTunes or yeah iTunes in the bookstore
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What will humans look...
And all of a sudden, what we're doing is we've got this multidimensional chess board where we can change human genetics by using viruses to attack things like AIDS, or we can change the gene code through gene therapy to do away with some hereditary diseases,
Video examples
History vs. Napoleon...
that kept some of the most important achievements of the revolution in freedom of religion abolition of hereditary privilege, and equality before the law for all men." "All men, indeed. He deprived women of the rights that the revolution had given them
Video examples
Why should you read “The...
In the novel, she interrogates the culture of her native India, including its social mores and colonial history. One of her focuses is the caste system, a way of classifying people by hereditary social class that is thousands of years old.
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I don't want children --...
like the risk of passing on hereditary illness, the danger of having to stop life-saving medication for the duration of your pregnancy, concern about overpopulation, your access to resources,
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Cara E. Yar Khan: The...
called hereditary inclusion body myopathy, or HIBM. It's a progressive muscle wasting disease that affects all of my muscles from head to toe. HIBM is very rare.
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Bringing Life-Changing...
there are many people affected by bilateral cataract at a very young age we call it a hereditary cataract just
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Jill Lepore
American Historian
History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what to do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.
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Steven Cojocaru
Canadian Critic
I was born with this. It's a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your whole life without really knowing that something's wrong. I had high blood pressure, and that was the first sign.
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Robert Mankoff
American Artist
Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes.
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Severo Ochoa
Spanish Scientist
The nucleic acids have considerable biological importance because of their role in cell growth and in the transmission of hereditary characters.
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Edward Gibbon
English Historian
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.
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James Nasmyth
Scottish Inventor
OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.
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Walter Scott
Scottish Novelist
Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
American Playwright
I have this thing called hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies. It's incredibly rare.
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Thomas Paine
English Activist
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
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Nostradamus
French Celebrity
Indeed, the hereditary gift of prophecy will go to the grave with me.
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Jill Lepore
American Historian
History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what to do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.
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Steven Cojocaru
Canadian Critic
I was born with this. It's a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your whole life without really knowing that something's wrong. I had high blood pressure, and that was the first sign.
Quote examples
Robert Mankoff
American Artist
Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes.
Quote examples
Severo Ochoa
Spanish Scientist
The nucleic acids have considerable biological importance because of their role in cell growth and in the transmission of hereditary characters.
Quote examples
Edward Gibbon
English Historian
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.
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James Nasmyth
Scottish Inventor
OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.
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Walter Scott
Scottish Novelist
Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
American Playwright
I have this thing called hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies. It's incredibly rare.
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Thomas Paine
English Activist
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
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Nostradamus
French Celebrity
Indeed, the hereditary gift of prophecy will go to the grave with me.
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