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Keywords: Trait, Inherited, Germline, Capable, Wholly

Related Terms: Allele, Dominant, Genotype, Hereditary, Heredity, Mendelian, Recessive, Heterozygote, X-Linked, Heterozygous, Homozygous, Genetic Variation, Dominant Inheritance, Alleles, Mendelian Inheritance, Autosomal Dominant, Codominance, Monohybrid, Mutant, Homozygote, Dominance, Autosomal Dominant Inheritance, Autosomal Recessive Inheritance, Polygenic Inheritance, Autosomal Recessive, Epistasis, Recessive Inheritance, Recessive Gene, Codominant, Congenic, Dominant Allele, Dominant Gene, Genetic Heterogeneity, Incomplete Dominance, Null Allele, Strain, Recessive Allele, Heterozygosity, Polygenic, Loss Of Heterozygosity, Dominant Trait, Complementation, Homozygosity, Polygene, Recessive Trait, Haploinsufficiency, Quantitative Trait Locus, Sex-Linked Inheritance, Phenocopy, Complex Trait

Capable of being inherited or of passing by inheritance; inheritable.

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Capable of inheriting or receiving by inheritance.

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Capable of being inherited or of passing on by inheritance from one individual to another.

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A genetic trait that is passed on to descendants.

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that can be inherited; "inheritable traits such as eye color"; "an inheritable title"

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Able to be inherited; in biology usually refers to genetically determined traits.

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A mutation that can be inherited. A germline mutation.

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Partly or wholly determined by genes; capable of being passed from an individual to its offspring.

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