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hereditability

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hereditability
[həred′itəbil′itē]
Etymology: L, hereditas, inheritance
the degree to which a specific trait is controlled by inheritance.


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There are two facts that need to be consistently considered; 1) Geoffrey's talents are rare and extraordinary and need encouragement and attention; and 2) while no one can control issues of hereditability, Geoffrey's case indicates that parents and educators can control, or purposefully choose to not control, most environmental determinants and/or influences of an affective and motivational nature.
Genetics Genetics has been an area of research funded by the National Alliance for Autism Research since NAAR first began awarding grants and remains an area of intense focus because of autism's apparent hereditability.
Granted the very obvious differences between mouse and horse, the generally accepted belief that hereditability of athletic merit in the latter is under 40 per cent, and the fact that nobody has yet identified which genes are primarily responsible for it, the mere acquisition of a technique for gene modification seems unlikely to serve much purpose.
 
 
 
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