Inheritable
51genetic screening — noun analyzing a group of people to determine genetic susceptibility to a particular disease genetic screening of infants for phenylketonuria • Hypernyms: ↑screening * * * 1. assessment of an individual s genetic makeup to detect inheritable… …
52monogenic — adjective of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by a single pair of genes • Similar to: ↑inheritable, ↑heritable • Topics: ↑genetics, ↑genetic science …
53nonheritable — adjective not inheritable • Syn: ↑noninheritable • Ant: ↑inheritable (for: ↑noninheritable) • Similar to: ↑acquired, ↑ …
54patrimonial — adjective inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent ancestral home ancestral lore hereditary monarchy patrimonial estate transmissible tradition • Syn: ↑ancestral, ↑heredita …
55polygenic — adjective of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes • Similar to: ↑inheritable, ↑heritable • Derivationally related forms: ↑polygene • Topics: ↑genetics, ↑ …
56acquired — adj. 1. 1 (Biol.) gotten through environmental forces. Contrasted with {inherited}. acquired characteristics cannot be passed on noninheritable (vs. inheritable), nonheritable Syn: nurtural [WordNet 1.5] …
57acquired nurtural — noninheritable oninheritable adj. not capable of transmission by heredity. Opposite of {inheritable}. [Narrower terms: {acquired, nurtural}; {congenital, inborn, innate}] Syn: nonheritable, nonhereditary, nontransmissible. [WordNet 1.5] …
58botany — Natural Nat u*ral (?; 135), a. [OE. naturel, F. naturel, fr. L. naturalis, fr. natura. See {Nature}.] 1. Fixed or determined by nature; pertaining to the constitution of a thing; belonging to native character; according to nature; essential;… …
59chemistry — Natural Nat u*ral (?; 135), a. [OE. naturel, F. naturel, fr. L. naturalis, fr. natura. See {Nature}.] 1. Fixed or determined by nature; pertaining to the constitution of a thing; belonging to native character; according to nature; essential;… …
60congenital inborn innate — noninheritable oninheritable adj. not capable of transmission by heredity. Opposite of {inheritable}. [Narrower terms: {acquired, nurtural}; {congenital, inborn, innate}] Syn: nonheritable, nonhereditary, nontransmissible. [WordNet 1.5] …
