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Genetic vs Heritable - What's the difference?

genetic | heritable |

As adjectives the difference between genetic and heritable

is that genetic is genetic while heritable is able to be inherited, passed from parents to their children.

genetic

Adjective

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  • (genetics) Relating to genetics or genes.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
  • , title= Wild Plants to the Rescue , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
  • Caused by genes.
  • Of or relating to origin (genesis).
  • * 1858 , Year-Book Of Facts In Science And Art For 1858
  • All evidence tends to this conclusion, that the sun is the prime genetic agent of earthquakes and of every other pluto-dynamic impulse which acts against the crust of the planet, and breaks or elevates any of its parts.

    Synonyms

    * hereditary

    Derived terms

    * genetic algorithm * genetic code * genetic disorder * genetic drift * genetic engineer * genetic engineering * genetic fingerprinting * genetic material * genetic modification

    heritable

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • able to be inherited, passed from parents to their children
  • * 1791: Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man
  • All hereditary government is in its nature tyranny. An heritable' crown, or an '''heritable''' throne, or by what other fanciful name such things may be called, have no other significant explanation than that mankind are ' heritable property.
  • * 1909: Albert Charles Seward, Darwin and Modern Science
  • But if we consider that all heritable variations must have their roots in the germ-plasm, and further, that when personal selection does not intervene, ...

    Synonyms

    * inheritable