Jill Lepore

History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what to do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.

American Historian

Steven Cojocaru

I was born with this. It's a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your whole life without really knowing that something's wrong. I had high blood pressure, and that was the first sign.

Canadian Critic

Robert Mankoff

Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes.

American Artist

Severo Ochoa

The nucleic acids have considerable biological importance because of their role in cell growth and in the transmission of hereditary characters.

Spanish Scientist

Edward Gibbon

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

English Historian

James Nasmyth

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.

Scottish Inventor

Walter Scott

Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Scottish Novelist

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

I have this thing called hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies. It's incredibly rare.

American Playwright

Thomas Paine

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

English Activist

Nostradamus

Indeed, the hereditary gift of prophecy will go to the grave with me.

French Celebrity

Hereditary often describes physical features passed through generations.

Physical Traits

Hereditary traits aren't always apparent; some affect your health internally.

Not Always Visible

Even if a trait is hereditary, it doesn't mean all children will get it.

Not Guaranteed

In legal contexts, hereditary indicates the transfer of titles by law or custom.

Legal Importance

Hereditary titles often reflect a family's history and lineage.

Family Lineage

Hereditary positions are not chosen but received by birthright.

Not Elective

In computing, hereditary reflects how software objects share characteristics.

Programming Context

Using hereditary principles in coding avoids repetition and increases efficiency.

Code Efficiency

 This is called synesthesia. Galton called it synesthesia, a mingling of the senses. In us, all the senses are distinct. These people muddle up their senses. Why does this happen? One of the two aspects of this problem are very intriguing. Synesthesia runs in families, so Galton said this is a hereditary basis, a genetic basis.

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 Without their regular cues, the muscles waste away. Precisely what makes the motor neurons degenerate is the prevailing mystery of ALS. In hereditary cases, parents pass genetic mutations on to their children. Even then, ALS involves multiple genes with multiple possible impacts on motor neurons,

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 And scarce resources, and a lack of access to healthy, affordable foods creates an even greater risk in disadvantaged communities. Yet, our genetic makeup also plays a part. Studies on families and on separated twins have shown a clear causal hereditary relationship to weight gain.

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 build this for you know if the makers are actually within the family so summer players and summer maker said it's a hereditary tradition both the makers and the players are within that well and do you have music that's available like on iTunes or yeah iTunes in the bookstore

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 And all of a sudden, what we're doing is we've got this multidimensional chess board where we can change human genetics by using viruses to attack things like AIDS, or we can change the gene code through gene therapy to do away with some hereditary diseases,

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 that kept some of the most important achievements of the revolution in freedom of religion abolition of hereditary privilege, and equality before the law for all men." "All men, indeed. He deprived women of the rights that the revolution had given them

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 In the novel, she interrogates the culture of her native India, including its social mores and colonial history. One of her focuses is the caste system, a way of classifying people by hereditary social class that is thousands of years old.

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 like the risk of passing on hereditary illness, the danger of having to stop life-saving medication for the duration of your pregnancy, concern about overpopulation, your access to resources,

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 called hereditary inclusion body myopathy, or HIBM. It's a progressive muscle wasting disease that affects all of my muscles from head to toe. HIBM is very rare.

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 there are many people affected by bilateral cataract at a very young age we call it a hereditary cataract just