| To the extent that the physical make-up of organisms provides heritable variation, it becomes a malleable clay that can be sculpted by selection. |
| Using biolistics, transgenic corn and soybean plants have been produced that contain heritable copies of the inserted gene. |
| In practice, these estates were only rarely intended to become the heritable property of daughters or female relatives. |
| All titles were heritable and followed the male line of descent almost exclusively. |
| This is hardly surprising, but it was also found that age at first reproduction is a heritable characteristic. |
| In this species, male courtship drumming has been shown to be an honest indicator of heritable viability. |
