noun[ U ]biologyspecialized/ˌher.ɪ.təˈbɪl.ə.ti//ˌher.ɪ.t̬əˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
遗传率
the ability of a disease or characteristic to be passed from a parent or grandparent to a child through the genes.
The heritability of the condition was found to be low based on a sample of 1,000 patients and their offspring. 在对1,000名患者及其后代进行抽样调查后发现,这种疾病的遗传率很低。
Autism has been shown to have a high rate of heritability.
Related word: heritable
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One way that scientists can determine the heritability of size is to breed together sets of parents of different sizes, and then observe the size of the offspring.