How to use in-sentence of “heritable”:
+ He distinguished between heritable variation as the result of breeding, and non-heritable variations caused by environmental differences such as soil and climate.
+ There are forces which add heritable variation to the population, such as mutation and recombination.
+ The autism spectrum disorders are highly heritable disorders.
+ In 2008, a consensus definition of the epigenetic trait, “stably heritable phenotype resulting from changes in a chromosome without alterations in the DNA sequence”, was made at a Cold Spring Harbor meeting.
+ The NIH Roadmap Epigenomics Project uses the definition: “…For purposes of this program, epigenetics refers to both heritable changes in gene activity and expression and also stable, long-term alterations in the transcriptional potential of a cell”.
+ These changes are heritable unless they have lethal effects.
+ Small groups are vulnerable to chance events in any case, but with no heritable variability they are even more vulnerable.
+ It has often been claimed that some heritable features of animals are not the product of adaptation by natural selection.
