Crossword-Solution: HERITABILITY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Heritability | n. | The state of being heritable. |
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| the state of being heritable | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
Hint 2 anagram
VNEIDI
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"Delicious!"
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Sentences with HERITABILITY (5)
The existence of this tendency in the lineages of individuals, he argued, incontrovertibly demonstrated the fact of heritability; and in an extended or exaggerated version it also demonstrated evolutionary relations between species.
But the older the variety is--that is, the longer the series of generations in which it has come true from seed--the less the chance of reversion: for now, to be like the immediate parents, is also to be like a long line of ancestry; and so all the influences concerned--- that is, both parental and ancestral heritability--act in one and the same direction.
Since this land was granted in return for service, there were limitations on its heritability and often an heir had to pay a heriot to the landlord to obtain the land.
The certain fact is, that a great distinction in respect of heritability is observable between congenital and acquired characters.
This hypothesis, it will be observed, goes far beyond the observed fact, for it is obviously possible that, notwithstanding this great difference in regard to heritability between congenital and acquired characters, the latter may nevertheless, sometimes and in some degree, be inherited, however much difficulty we may experience in observing these lesser phenomena in presence of the greater.