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Heritable vs Inbred - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between heritable and inbred

is that heritable is able to be inherited, passed from parents to their children while inbred is bred within; innate; as, inbred worth.

As a verb inbred is

past tense of inbreed.

As a noun inbred is

an inbred individual.

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

    inbred

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • bred within; innate; as, inbred worth.
  • (often pejorative) having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding
  • (genetics) describing a strain produced through successive generations of inbreeding resulting in a population of genetically identical individuals which are homozygous at all genetic loci.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (inbreed)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (vulgar) An inbred individual
    • Since you all marry your cousins I bet you're a bunch of inbreds .

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