heritableadjective
uk/ˈher.ɪ.tə.bəl//ˈher.ɪ.t̬ə.bəl/specializedA heritable disease or characteristic can be passed from a parent or grandparent to a child through the genes:
Autism is a heritable neurological disorder.
The claim that IQ is heritable provokes controversy.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Innate and congenital
- birth
- born
- born and bred idiom
- congenital
- descend
- descend from sth
- inborn
- inbred
- inclined
- inherit
- inheritance
- innate
- instinct
- instinctive
- native
- natural
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