What's the difference between heritable and meritable?
Heritable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being inherited or of passing by inheritance; inheritable.
(a.) Capable of inheriting or receiving by inheritance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Osteogenesis imperfecta is the common term for a heterogeneous group of heritable disorders of connective tissue with lethal and nonlethal forms.
(2) This study focuses on the expansion and maturation of the fatty streak in the aorta of Watanabe Heritable Hyperlipemic rabbits and comparably hypercholesterolemic fat-fed rabbits between 2 and 6 months duration of hypercholesterolemia.
(3) Our results illustrate, once again, that heritability is not a constant, but depends on the precise characteristics of the population and the time at which it is studied.
(4) A significant relationship with heritable fragile sites was found in this study.
(5) The heritability of the two traits of walking behavior was remarkably different; the former was estimated to be about 7%, the latter 26%.
(6) The heritability for one of the measures of attention deficit was also significant (h2g = 0.76).
(7) As in earlier series, estimates of heritability are higher for mothers than fathers.
(8) The genetic implications of establishing the diagnosis of this common heritable X-chromosome abnormality and the therapeutic consequences of detecting the depression are emphasized.
(9) The data failed to detect significant heritability, and common family environment proved to be a major determinant in the variation of periodontal health.
(10) Dermatopathia pigmentosa reticularis is a rare heritable disorder consisting of a triad of cutaneous findings including reticulate hyperpigmentation, noncicatricial alopecia, and onychodystrophy.
(11) However, when spelling ability was investigated, a heritability of 0.53 was obtained, increasing to 0.75 when intelligence was controlled.
(12) Milk yield, fat yield, and protein yield had heritabilities of .36, .38, and .25.
(13) Moreover, genetics textbooks consistently employ confused or misleading definitions of the concept of heritability that, together with the reporting of discredited data, perpetuate a fundamentally inaccurate understanding of the genetics of intelligence.
(14) Refractive error and the ocular refractive components have heritabilities intermediate between zero and one, as complied from several studies, indicating familial resemblance, but also non-genetic variation.
(15) Statistically significant interactions effects of line x diet were noted (P less than .01) for AGE, ADG and Index, traits with low to moderate heritabilities (h2).
(16) The heritability estimate of 0.6 appears lower than that from studies in European populations.
(17) The results were tabulated and expressed specifically by way of the heritability and repeatability coefficients.
(18) Heritability estimates were extremely variable among the different herds and methods of measurement but there was evidence of considerable genetic variation, particularly for sweat gland traits.
(19) Radiation-induced heritable lesions in murine leukaemic lymphoblasts L5178Y-S affect progesssion of the cells through the G2 phase of the cell cycle.
(20) The somatic mutation theory of carcinogenesis has dominated much of cancer research for the past 30 years, encouraging emphasis on exogenous genotoxic agents capable of inducing malignant transformation via heritable damage to DNA.
Meritable
Definition:
(a.) Deserving of reward.
Example Sentences:
(1) after operation for hip fracture, and merits assessment in other high-risk groups of patients.
(2) Originally from Pyongyang, the tour guide explains that a “merited artist” from Mansudae, North Korea’s biggest art studio in Pyongyang, was responsible for the main piece, but that it took 63 artists almost two years to complete.
(3) The concept of almost total breast biopsy has great merit in the discovery of occult carcinoma.
(4) A new figure of merit, the limit of identification, is introduced.
(5) An untiring advocate of the joys and merits of his adopted home county, Bradbury figured Norfolk as a place of writing parsons, farmer-writers and sensitive poets: John Skelton, Rider Haggard, John Middleton Murry, William Cowper, George MacBeth, George Szirtes.
(6) The results of this study, combined with those of previous studies, suggest that factor VII may be a useful additional marker of the risk for ischemic heart disease and merits further investigation.
(7) Patients with normal blood lipid livel merit special attention.
(8) Response to norepinephrine was 15, 20, 18, and 15% greater in high genetic than low genetic merit heifers and response to epinephrine was 12, 20, 14, and 50% greater in high genetic than low genetic merit heifers at 30, 60, 180, and 349 d postpartum.
(9) Since no evaluation of the relative merits of electro and chemical cautery has been reported, a prospective randomized study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of electro-cautery and cautery with silver nitrate.
(10) The finding is at variance with others that ascribe haemostatic changes observed to increased oestrogen content in a given pill formulation and so merits confirmation in a larger study.
(11) The surest way for either side to capture the mood of a cash-strapped country would be to give ground on those of their demands which have least merit.
(12) Frequency of sensitivity to foods, preservatives, colouring agents, medical substances, principally shown by provocation tests (the latter present a considerable interest, and merit frequent use); importance of bacterian, mycotic, parasitic origins; little importance of atopy; frequency of minor psychogenic disorders.
(13) The merits of formaldehyde, formaldehyde-glutaraldehyde combinations, and glutaraldehyde in phosphate buffers have been compared as fixatives that will give easy and satisfactory preservation of tissues for routine automated histologic processing and yet keep them suitable for electron microscopical studies after prolonged storage at room temperature.
(14) In the late post-operative period these patients developed complications which merited a surgical reintervention.
(15) Each of the five hospitals denied the doctors privileges without reaching the merits of the doctors' qualifications.
(16) However, submucosal resection of the septum is a rapid, but traumatic surgical method, which has its merits in duration and tradition.
(17) To assess quantitatively the merits of internal standardization, an amino acid mixture of known composition has been analyzed by conventional automated amino acid analysis before and after being subjected to total acid hydrolysis.
(18) Uefa has said it is open to proposals about the future of the competition, amid disquiet from clubs outside England about the spending power of Premier League clubs in the wake of their £8.3bn TV deal, but is expected to strongly resist any move to propose qualification should be on anything other than merit.
(19) Assumptions, bases for choice, and relative merits of these two modeling strategies are discussed.
(20) The increased frequency during the initial stage of the endoscopy, which may assume an already dangerous dimension for patients with coronary heart disease, merits particular attention.