Heritable vs Inborn - What's the difference?
heritable | inborn | Related terms |
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
innate, possessed by an organism at birth
* September 20 1995 , writing in The Guardian'', ''
inherited or hereditary
Heritable is a related term of inborn.
As adjectives the difference between heritable and inborn
is that heritable is able to be inherited, passed from parents to their children while inborn is innate, possessed by an organism at birth.heritable
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Adjective
(-)- 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, ...
Synonyms
* inheritableinborn
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Adjective
(-)From Venus and Mars
- However, a scientific study just published in American Psychologist provides strong reasons to doubt that there are many inborn differences between genders.