Genetic vs Heritable - What's the difference?
genetic | heritable |
(genetics) Relating to genetics or genes.
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Of or relating to origin (genesis).
* 1858 ,
able to be inherited, passed from parents to their children
* 1791: Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man
* 1909: Albert Charles Seward, Darwin and Modern Science
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
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Wild Plants to the Rescue, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
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- 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.
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* hereditaryDerived terms
* genetic algorithm * genetic code * genetic disorder * genetic drift * genetic engineer * genetic engineering * genetic fingerprinting * genetic material * genetic modificationheritable
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(-)- 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.
- 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, ...